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Concept Index

The terms this archive thinks with, and every piece that uses each one. Two pieces are related here because they share a concept — and you can see which concept, rather than an unlabelled line between them.

Nothing on this page is written by hand. Terms come from a curated vocabulary; the references are found by reading the archive at build time, in all three of its languages, so an entry cannot go stale while the writing moves on. A title set in the accent means the piece names the concept; the rest use it without announcing it.

AI as prosthesis 義肢

2

Assistive technology as a rights claim. Open tension: levels individual capability, may widen structural access gaps.

Character consumption キャラ消費

3

The figure treated as a packaged commodity rather than a person.

Concept history

7

Reading a word's migration as political history: what it displaced, who it protects at each stage.

DARVO

7

Deny, attack, reverse victim and offender. Lives mostly in the 2025 record tier.

Decaffeinated revolt

1

Rebellion served with the danger removed.

Hidden rule tax

5

Rules an institution never publishes. Whoever knows them wins; whoever doesn't pays the difference.

Coined in /posts/2026-07-06-the-hidden-rule-tax

Indigenization 本土化

2

An anti-hegemonic academic strategy that became a compliance tool.

Institutional design

7

REVIEW: tagged on 5 pieces, used in prose in 2. May be a label rather than a working term.

Moral panic

5

Under-declared: appears in six pieces, tagged on one.

Narrative control

15

REVIEW: tagged on 11 pieces, used in prose in 6. Likely over-applied as a label.

Pathologization of dissent

6

Recasting an objection as a symptom. The prose says 病理, not the tag's AI 精神病.

Platform governance

7

When the entity holding the rules is a company, appeal becomes a product feature.

Profanation

1

Agamben's sense: returning to common use what had been set apart.

Scientism

1

Declaring all non-instrumental knowledge worthless.

Simulacrum シミュラクル

2

Used to answer the circulation of official Kazama images. Note the spelling is シミュラクル, not シミュラークル.

Social Darwinism

2

Arrived through a deliberate mistranslation; stayed because the soil was prepared.

Subaltern

2

Whose voice gets sanitized out of a text about revolt.

Transparent protagonist

5

A heroine written to be seen through rather than seen.

Wounded attachment

1

Identity organised around the injury that formed it.

YGP syndrome

4

猪猪's own coinage. Defined in the Japanese piece that asks who gets to define it.

Coined in /posts/note-20251003-1436

烂尾 / permanent incompletion

2

A structure left unfinished and unclosable, with the obligation still running.

天灾 / natural disaster as political speech

6

Who holds the authority to say what a disaster means.

Coined in /posts/2026-07-07-tianzai-concept-history

22 concepts · 93 references