Showing posts with label wordplay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wordplay. Show all posts

11.5.26

[New Word] Discasteing

1) Something disrupting of caste hierarchy.
2) An awful manifestation of caste oppression.

16.10.25

[New Word] Influectual

Oft combining the worst elements of the three concepts in irresistible ways.

17.4.25

15.9.23

[New Word] Corbodoxy

The growing , and late, realisation by the erstwhile British public that he was generally right about the things that matter.

3.8.23

22.5.23

[New Word] Cantonmentalism

Is a bent of mind that many are forced to endure, when colonial foot soldiers rule the roost with impunity, benefits and foolishness in tact.

Hard to escape, makes matters worse.

For example, Bangladeshi Cantonmentalism has a lot to answer for. Tanky swashbuckling bravado aside, by assassinating Mujib and that vast section of his family they ended up entrenching the dynasty.

With sons and 'natural' heirs dispatched, who could well have extinguished themselves competing for power, they left two surviving traumatised daughters who would cooperate, more often than not, than their male peers.

people are strange.

4.4.23

[New Word] Egosystem

Negotiating and tempting to transform these is frightening but mandatory, not just the external ones. Most movements, families and individuals quickly reach their limits without sufficient craft for this. Ya Raheem, Ya Mudhil, Ya Jabbar.

27.3.23

[New Word] Boasterity

The Awami League praxis of simultaneous, expedient denial and exaggeration.

23.5.22

[New Word] Salafilter

A required socio-technical device for something awesome that you don't want salaphies to fuck up.

19.7.21

[New Word] Compound Stupidity

Person A has a specific stupidity affecting multiple dimensions of their thought and being. In close proximity to Person B their combined reach and powers of stupidity are elevated to more than the sum of their wholes. The affect of time and companionship has an interesting affect on compound stupidity.

15.4.21

mejdoul recall

Be Good to Yourself,
We washed the dates
In hepatitis A infected feaces
Yet all you can talk about is that particular Bastard state,
Not your own
Sweetness

23.7.20

[New Word] ASlashing

A method by which a wide alliance of capital and colonial actors ensures political, economic and racial supremacy over you and those who dare challenge its unassailability.

See also, The Trope-a-Dope Technique

17.3.20

[New Word] Wancle

That brand of entitled humour rooted in anti auntyness, devaluation of their spirit, labour and a confidence that another Wancle will laugh.

17.7.19

[New Word] Panoramal

An alternative reality set by a BBC Documentary. To be read as political fairytale more than a truthful and enlightening account of a given situation.

9.1.19

[New Word] Nirmulosterone

Did you have fun rigging your latest election tasmaha? Fancy an(other) ultranationalist high? Why not chase the green serpent with a vial of Nirmulosterone.

Destroys political pasts, presents and futures.

Credits to Jahanara Imam, Shahriar Kabir, Gita Chagol and David Bergman.

7.11.18

[New Word] Cusband

Because there should be a word for this subset of dulabhai, especially the ones one likes.

22.3.18

[New Word] Euroversity

An institutional genre built for a specific experience and audience, yet attended and reproduced all around the colonially wounded worlds, not to be mistaken for an ummahticaly edifying end point, inshAllah.

14.12.17

[New Word] Neolibully

There is something systemic about these characters, along with the personal ill qualities that they inevitably enhance.

Promoted to a destructive incompetence by institutional cultures that treat humans as fungible commodities and deify performance indicators, the neolibully is a common sight in public institutionunder arson attack from misapplication of ways of thinking thought to be valued in the profit making sector, and amplified by austerity.

Neolibullysome impact are rife in education, on staff students and collective trajectories. Some tangible, most more than material. They exploit the poor and hopeful who enter the doors.

27.11.17

[New Word] Climate Refugicity

A quality of those areas to which people and other creatures will head as climate impacts impregnate our world.

No armed climate lifeboats. No Malthusian endgame. Please.

29.3.17

[New Word] Apologenterprise

The business of seeking publicity and currying favour in exchange for reassuring people and apologising for something you didn't do.