[New Word] Developmint

1) An item of breath freshening confectionery that causes one whiteness and civilisation

2) Wealth accrued through working in the development industry.

3) The key institutions through which the currency of said industry is conceived and pushed out.

[New Word] Bracottobad

The city of the future, run entirely by an NGO, offering farticipatory development to the masses, staffed by the middling to keep the powerful undisturbed.

[New Word] Deadmockracy

The politics of representing the dead as an assumed and non-negotiable constituency.
Such commodification of suffering and pain  is not new, but in late capitalism it generates strange political flows that dim the light.

Closely related to: Zionism, Jionijom, Blood Capitalism

[New Word] Epistemystique

def: Our strange ways of knowing.

The term is used to understand eachother's different acquired filters and antennae of coming to know.

Think about it in an intra-ummahtic setting, around Maulid / MiladunNabi. I want textual evidence/ I don't need it, it's a beneficial innovation/ It's an established embodied practice/ Birthdays are stupid, even for the Beloved.

Or in an encounter with a newspaper reporter, where you want to say what's going through your head, but he only wants to fit you into a cartoon.Or with dream seeing or the more experiential Sufis.

Its a mystique, because it does not declare itself and considers itself inherent a lot of the time and beyond renovation. Whether in a court of law, a combat scenario, academic peer-review or any other consensus, established wisdom and produced common senses regularly commit epistemicide in their disregard of  knowledge that they choose not to fathom

We the bearers of song should get our heads around Epistemystique, not simply as a pretentious marketing tool but for feeling and being.

[New Word] Farticipatory

Often when people try to tick a box or gain legitimacy (and funding) they invoke the Participatory.

Some years ago i was with some water sector people in Bangladesh. Proper NGOistan.

They were feeding me some stuff on their participatory projects and i came accross an interesting pie chart.
It was a pie chart of their donors/financers. And yes, The Agents of Developmentia were well represented.

What a farce, how farticipatory.

This foul breeze exists in all climes. Im sure it isnt what Paulo Freire was on about.