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SPATIALEXICON

SPATIALEXICON (under construction)

A Polyglot is a linguistic nomad pursuing preset semantic trails and leaving behind unconscious traces

Dictionary for functioning in a New Space
Contemporary update of general terms; redefinitions.

Aegitecture – (eng. root; architecture. prefix; aegis) (ee-ji-tek-tur) n. elements worn to protect humans from their inability to discern one architectural space from the next. These elements recall generic architectural formations in order to comfort the wearer through the idea that he is home. He wore all types of aegitecture, as he planned to spend the day in the airport.

Apostrupture – (eng. root; structure/rupture. prefix; post/apocalypse) (apOst-rupchur) n. The structures being built around coastal cities and towns as the melting polar icecaps cause sea levels to rise. Mary Mattingly is working on plans for New York’s apostrupture, a wall made from translucent cement.

Bivotrans - (eng. root; bivouac) (bI-vO-trAns) adj. A living being’s relation, reaction, and interaction with glass or mirrored/laminant-film architectural structures. Forty birds died each day at the World Trade Center in Manhattan because of the obvious conflictual bivotrans relationship carried out between the birds and the reflectant sky-like surface of the building.

Cealamony – (eng. root; ceremony. prefix; conceal) (seel-a-mOnee) v. A ritualistic veiling of one’s identity. In Kobo Abe’s novelette, "The Box Man", the characters participate in the cealamony of the cardboard city.

Celcerform - (root; cellular) n. Device used to shrink cancerous growths. His celcerform is above his right ear, blocking his cell-phones cancerous rays.Decoalesco – (lat. root; coalesco) (dee-kO-les-kO) adj. 1. A rootless background. 2. A plastic sensibility. Their untraditional activities are the result of a whole culture of decoalesco thought.

Corperment:  (COR'-per-munt) This word reflects the reality of today's allegiance between empowered corporations and government.  In this view of the relations between previously autonomous government and corporate functions, government serves as an extension of corporate policies, while at the same time, corporations serve as extensions of government policy. 

EO (EO's)  (EEE'-ohs) Shorthand for "environmental oddities".  When then sun's output is up 6-8 percent compared with a year or two back - that's an "EO."EO...also: Whale beachings, strange earth sounds, ELF radiation, radar rings

G-Simpod - (root words; Simputer, iPod) n. The perfect product, a cohesion between the old East and West borders. The G- signifies none other than God, the only place that the idea of the perfect product could come from. It has two emergency keys, but most often the G-Simpod acts as an old-fashioned computer/communicator and a music player. Please see the G-Simpod Press Release.

Getthroughitness:  (get-THREW-it-ness)  In planning for a wildly uncertain future, a practitioner of getthroughitness does not try to constrain the wide range of possible outcomes, rather, they focus on mobility, and advance warning systems to stay out of harms way.  They rely on skills and mindset to move forward once crisis is pas, and their mantra is "Chance favors the prepared mind..." 

Inform – n. A wearable object that reminds of internal bliss so as to distract from external
confusion. Informs bring the wearer to the eye of flux-storm.Muself – n. People who carry incidents of past and present along with ideas of future, in a physical or mental state. As signified in the popular story, Fahrenheit 451, muselfs roamed the forests as living documents to culture.

Musiform – n. A wearable museum to house past memories, small duplicates of special objects. In many cases these museums house relics of ideas and notions that no longer have a place in society and are recognized from a distance as otherworldly. The museum in used temporarily in periods of flux. Musiforms aid the wearer in the Rite of Clenformation.

Museum – n. A place of enlightenment where the viewer regards overall self in the form of extinct cultures, heritages, and memories. The museum houses relics of ideas and notions that no longer have a place in society and are recognized from a distance as otherworldly.

Plastic Gardens – n. Generic sculpture parks set up usually at four points in sub/urban planned spaces. They tend to represent a preservation of the past and an accepted growth towards the future.Postform – n. A weareable object that has the effect of and acts as a reminder of post-cultural sameness. Their postforms all articulated the same thing to me.

Regos – ( eng. root; regress. suffix; ego) (rE-gOs) adj. The need to play sports or games generally associated with children. His regos personality hindered him in all forms of common aspirations.

Resimulo - (latin. root; res; real, adsimulo; simulate) (rE-sim-U-lO) adj. The experience that takes place when altered nature skews perception of reality. "1984", by George Orwell, alluded to resimulo conditions through the theory of "doublespeak".

Rite of Clenformation – adv. Ritualistic purging of possessions. Navigators who embark on this ritual divorce themselves from all collections, and in turn internalize due to necessity in the form of spatial, elemental, and navigational restrictions.

Rite of Completion – After leaving the womb, one creates relationships with transitional objects to satisfy a new-found "Ego". One will impose Ego on the object until one is able to form person-to-person relationships to satiate the missing completion of mother/child.

Rostafform - (rO-staf-form) (root; staff) n. Staff-like device that provides the traveller with divine protection and guidance. Her rostafform was complete with a slot for her spectus.Spatioin – (spA-shE-on) adj. An unavoidable and generic confrontation with space, with non-place. Her reaction to the spation conditions of the hotel met that of the designer’s target audience.

Spectime – (lat. root; spectum) adj. Unable to discern time. He has a spectime relationship with his grandfather and their past.Spectumform – (lat. root; spectum) n. Sense-expansion device. The navigator bought new ear spectumforms so as to increase his hearing and make up for a loss of spatial perception.Spectus – (lat. root; spectum) (spek-tus) n. 1. Map designed to discern similar space. 2. Map that can be used anywhere in the world as one place invariably invokes the next. The spectus has revolutionized the map, now only one is needed.

Specolumn – (lat. prefix; spectum, eng. root; column) n Locators placed throughout structures to be used as reference for passers-by. They regard the specolumn when it was obvious that they were lost.

Spectus – (lat. root; spectum) (spek-tus) n. 1. Map designed to discern similar space. 2. Map that can be used anywhere in the world as one place invariably invokes the next. The spectus has revolutionized the map, now only one is needed. (see footnote)

Time – n . When the word time is uttered it refers to a space relative to the subject in a horizontal manner. Time can be the space between one moment and another, or that moment. We call this conversion Time, time is no longer of essence as decoalesco societies use space as a determinate for change. Time refers to a visual space change. Place relates more clearly to a station – an avoidance or a wander.

Uniscape – (eng. Root; landscape, prefix; uni) (unE-skApe) n. Mimicry landscaping. The cell triad pattern was the inspiration for the uniscape of bushes.

Universal oxiform – n . Breathing device. Universal oxiforms have become a commodity second only to water.

The spectus maps function in any succession you desire, overlapped or singular. The real-space that these maps represent is countered by the translation and re-translation of place through different methods, symbols, layers, and intervals of time, resulting in the four flattened ellipses housing reminders of common space and the relative location from one to the next. When two or more maps are put together they act as a compass, the transparent layers offer solutions to new space and new time. The lack of direction associated with the maps allows for the impermanence in shifting architecture to conform to the flexibility of the map; these become generic maps and generic symbols that no longer necessarily need to represent the parking garage, the museum, the cinema, and the hotel. They may stand for whatever outstanding feature the traveler is looking to connect with. Generic and llasting maps permeate the landscape, making it unnecessary for the marketer to need more than one set for the Western World (essentially the same generic landscape follows the sale of the map – or vice versa). The maps are a reminder of the confusion and frustration people may feel as they try to assimilate real, tangible space with created elements in intangible space.

The evolution of space is slow and inevitable. one space will eventually blend into the next, borders will be irrelevant and play a role only in fictional politics - there will be little difference between here and there. the spectus is the map of the future. it will pinpoint your destiny in any location - whether it be a hotel, a parking lot, a cinema, etc. the rotational spectus along with your wearable houses (aegitecture) are the only necessary maps.

Here is a rough sketch of all of the subways and underground railways workers of the world have built. Thus, the design for the ideal underground railway inside the ideal sub/urban landscape is the rollover image.