Lexicon Initiated

Wildness by Kwinter:
ENVIRONMENT (topic-based):
External factors that influence an entity; often physical, but sometimes social or cultural. These can be either natural (undisturbed by mankind) or designed. It is also the background against which a person or thing is observed.

EMERGENCE (descriptive/active):
A state of evolutionary process; a visual development, or outgrowth, through the introduction of new properties, often resulting in a distortion of the previous entity.

"Design today must find ways to approximate these ecological forces and structures, to tap, approximate, borrow, and transform morphogenetic processes from all aspects of wild nature, to invent artificial means of creating living artificial environments" (Sanford Kwinter).

Nonlinear History by De Landa
ENERGY(topic-based):
Heat or power produced in a variety of forms such as fossil fuels, electricity, wind, tidal, nuclear, thermal, chemical, or solar radiation capable of vigorous activity by undergoing a transformation from one form to another.

AUTOCATALYTIC (descriptive/active):
An action, initiated as a reaction to an agent, occurring between two or more entities. Said agent remains unaffected by the action in occurrence.

"Human history is a narrative of contingencies, not necessities, of missed opportunities to follow different routes of development, not of a unilinear succession of ways to convert energy, matter, and information into cultural products" (Manuel De Landa).

Article summaries updated: Wildness & Nonlinear History.