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1. Proletariat

Marxism - Lower Class (Majority); Not Financially Stable; Financially Hostaged To The Bourgeoisie; Marx Wanted These Blue-collar Laborers To Unite And Overhaul The Capitalist System In Favor Of A More Egalitarian EconomyMarxism - Social Institutions (E.G. Education - Law - Media - Arts - Etc.) Derived From/Founded On The Means Of Production (Base) In A CivilizationPostcolonial - Not Overt Physical Conquest - But Colonizer Invades Religious - Educational - Traditional - Governmental - And Other Cultural InstitutionsPostcolonial - Syncretism; Heterogeneous - Blending Of Colonizer/Colonized Cultures

2. Superstructure

Marxism - Social Institutions (E.G. Education - Law - Media - Arts - Etc.) Derived From/Founded On The Means Of Production (Base) In A CivilizationPostcolonial - Syncretism; Heterogeneous - Blending Of Colonizer/Colonized CulturesPostcolonial - Not Overt Physical Conquest - But Colonizer Invades Religious - Educational - Traditional - Governmental - And Other Cultural InstitutionsMarxism - Lower Class (Majority); Not Financially Stable; Financially Hostaged To The Bourgeoisie; Marx Wanted These Blue-collar Laborers To Unite And Overhaul The Capitalist System In Favor Of A More Egalitarian Economy

3. Hybridity

Postcolonial - Syncretism; Heterogeneous - Blending Of Colonizer/Colonized CulturesMarxism - Social Institutions (E.G. Education - Law - Media - Arts - Etc.) Derived From/Founded On The Means Of Production (Base) In A CivilizationMarxism - Lower Class (Majority); Not Financially Stable; Financially Hostaged To The Bourgeoisie; Marx Wanted These Blue-collar Laborers To Unite And Overhaul The Capitalist System In Favor Of A More Egalitarian EconomyPostcolonial - Not Overt Physical Conquest - But Colonizer Invades Religious - Educational - Traditional - Governmental - And Other Cultural Institutions

4. Cultural Colonization

5. Commodification

Postcolonial - Syncretism; Heterogeneous - Blending Of Colonizer/Colonized CulturesMarxism - Lower Class (Majority); Not Financially Stable; Financially Hostaged To The Bourgeoisie; Marx Wanted These Blue-collar Laborers To Unite And Overhaul The Capitalist System In Favor Of A More Egalitarian EconomyMarxism - Social Institutions (E.G. Education - Law - Media - Arts - Etc.) Derived From/Founded On The Means Of Production (Base) In A CivilizationMarxism - Goods - Services - People - Ideas - Etc. Objectified And Regarded In Terms Of Their Sign Value Or Exchange Value (Not Use Value)

6. Spatialization

Postcolonial - Syncretism; Heterogeneous - Blending Of Colonizer/Colonized CulturesFoucauldian - Social Categories Created By Spatial Distinctions; Different Groups Of People Are Confined - Concealed - Obstructed - Arranged In Discrete Geographic/Cartographic/Sociological SpacesMarxism - Lower Class (Majority); Not Financially Stable; Financially Hostaged To The Bourgeoisie; Marx Wanted These Blue-collar Laborers To Unite And Overhaul The Capitalist System In Favor Of A More Egalitarian EconomyMarxism - Social Institutions (E.G. Education - Law - Media - Arts - Etc.) Derived From/Founded On The Means Of Production (Base) In A Civilization

7. Discipline

Postcolonial - Syncretism; Heterogeneous - Blending Of Colonizer/Colonized CulturesMarxism - Social Institutions (E.G. Education - Law - Media - Arts - Etc.) Derived From/Founded On The Means Of Production (Base) In A CivilizationFoucauldian - The Means By Which Power Is Exercised To Regulate Behavior In A Social Body; Includes Spatializations - Normalizing Judgements - Minute Control Of Activities - Repetitive Exercises - Detailed Hierarchies - Etc.Marxism - Lower Class (Majority); Not Financially Stable; Financially Hostaged To The Bourgeoisie; Marx Wanted These Blue-collar Laborers To Unite And Overhaul The Capitalist System In Favor Of A More Egalitarian Economy

8. Unhomeliness

Marxism - Lower Class (Majority); Not Financially Stable; Financially Hostaged To The Bourgeoisie; Marx Wanted These Blue-collar Laborers To Unite And Overhaul The Capitalist System In Favor Of A More Egalitarian EconomyMarxism - Social Institutions (E.G. Education - Law - Media - Arts - Etc.) Derived From/Founded On The Means Of Production (Base) In A CivilizationPostcolonial - Double Consciousness; Sense Of Cultural Displacement/Identity Crisis - Suspension Between Precolonial And Colonial Contexts; Existence In A Liminal - Transcultural SpacePostcolonial - Syncretism; Heterogeneous - Blending Of Colonizer/Colonized Cultures

9. Apparatus

Marxism - Lower Class (Majority); Not Financially Stable; Financially Hostaged To The Bourgeoisie; Marx Wanted These Blue-collar Laborers To Unite And Overhaul The Capitalist System In Favor Of A More Egalitarian EconomyPostcolonial - Syncretism; Heterogeneous - Blending Of Colonizer/Colonized CulturesFoucauldian - Institutional/Epistemological Framework For The Exercise Of Power Within The Social BodyMarxism - Social Institutions (E.G. Education - Law - Media - Arts - Etc.) Derived From/Founded On The Means Of Production (Base) In A Civilization

10. Back Country

Postcolonial - Syncretism; Heterogeneous - Blending Of Colonizer/Colonized CulturesEcocritical - Closer To Human Civilization Than Wilderness (In Essence - In Proximity - Or Both) But Not As Manicured Or Safe As Urban Nature/Greenspace; "Off The Grid"Marxism - Lower Class (Majority); Not Financially Stable; Financially Hostaged To The Bourgeoisie; Marx Wanted These Blue-collar Laborers To Unite And Overhaul The Capitalist System In Favor Of A More Egalitarian EconomyMarxism - Social Institutions (E.G. Education - Law - Media - Arts - Etc.) Derived From/Founded On The Means Of Production (Base) In A Civilization

11. The State

Marxism - Social Institutions (E.G. Education - Law - Media - Arts - Etc.) Derived From/Founded On The Means Of Production (Base) In A CivilizationPostcolonial - Syncretism; Heterogeneous - Blending Of Colonizer/Colonized CulturesFoucauldian - Practical Codification Of Power Relations In The Social Body; Head Of The ApparatusMarxism - Lower Class (Majority); Not Financially Stable; Financially Hostaged To The Bourgeoisie; Marx Wanted These Blue-collar Laborers To Unite And Overhaul The Capitalist System In Favor Of A More Egalitarian Economy

12. Mimicry

Postcolonial - Expecting Or Enforcing Imitation Of Dominant Cultural Behaviors/Mannerisms/Fashions/Beliefs/Customs/Etc.Marxism - Lower Class (Majority); Not Financially Stable; Financially Hostaged To The Bourgeoisie; Marx Wanted These Blue-collar Laborers To Unite And Overhaul The Capitalist System In Favor Of A More Egalitarian EconomyPostcolonial - Syncretism; Heterogeneous - Blending Of Colonizer/Colonized CulturesMarxism - Social Institutions (E.G. Education - Law - Media - Arts - Etc.) Derived From/Founded On The Means Of Production (Base) In A Civilization

13. Anti-pastoral

Postcolonial - Syncretism; Heterogeneous - Blending Of Colonizer/Colonized CulturesMarxism - Lower Class (Majority); Not Financially Stable; Financially Hostaged To The Bourgeoisie; Marx Wanted These Blue-collar Laborers To Unite And Overhaul The Capitalist System In Favor Of A More Egalitarian EconomyEcocriticism - Emphasis On Grittiness Of Human Interactions With Nature; Rejects The Idealized Aesthetic Of Pastoralism And Represents Nature As Sometimes Threatening - Resistant To Human Development - Capable Of Harming/Challenging Humans (Disease - Natural Disasters - Etc.)Marxism - Social Institutions (E.G. Education - Law - Media - Arts - Etc.) Derived From/Founded On The Means Of Production (Base) In A Civilization

14. Actant

Postcolonial - Syncretism; Heterogeneous - Blending Of Colonizer/Colonized CulturesMarxism - Lower Class (Majority); Not Financially Stable; Financially Hostaged To The Bourgeoisie; Marx Wanted These Blue-collar Laborers To Unite And Overhaul The Capitalist System In Favor Of A More Egalitarian EconomyEcocritical - Nonhuman (Esp. Natural) Forces That Affect Humans - Whether Positively Or NegativelyMarxism - Social Institutions (E.G. Education - Law - Media - Arts - Etc.) Derived From/Founded On The Means Of Production (Base) In A Civilization

15. Power

Marxism - Social Institutions (E.G. Education - Law - Media - Arts - Etc.) Derived From/Founded On The Means Of Production (Base) In A CivilizationFoucauldian - Relation Not A Thing; Not Exclusively Possessed By The State; Omnipresent; Strategic And Warlike; Not Only Repressive But ProductivePostcolonial - Syncretism; Heterogeneous - Blending Of Colonizer/Colonized CulturesMarxism - Lower Class (Majority); Not Financially Stable; Financially Hostaged To The Bourgeoisie; Marx Wanted These Blue-collar Laborers To Unite And Overhaul The Capitalist System In Favor Of A More Egalitarian Economy

16. Panopticism

Marxism - Social Institutions (E.G. Education - Law - Media - Arts - Etc.) Derived From/Founded On The Means Of Production (Base) In A CivilizationMarxism - Lower Class (Majority); Not Financially Stable; Financially Hostaged To The Bourgeoisie; Marx Wanted These Blue-collar Laborers To Unite And Overhaul The Capitalist System In Favor Of A More Egalitarian EconomyPostcolonial - Syncretism; Heterogeneous - Blending Of Colonizer/Colonized CulturesFoucauldian - Based On Betham's Panoptical Penitentiary Model (Central Tower - Constant Surveillance Or Illusion Of Surveillance Incites Paranoid Self-monitoring); Can Be A Governmental/Social Power Model (Not Just For A Prison)

17. Pastoral

Marxism - Social Institutions (E.G. Education - Law - Media - Arts - Etc.) Derived From/Founded On The Means Of Production (Base) In A CivilizationMarxism - Lower Class (Majority); Not Financially Stable; Financially Hostaged To The Bourgeoisie; Marx Wanted These Blue-collar Laborers To Unite And Overhaul The Capitalist System In Favor Of A More Egalitarian EconomyEcocriticism - Bucolic - Idyllic Representation Of Nature; Scenic Portrayal; Nature Is Friendly By Disposition And Receptive To Human PresencePostcolonial - Syncretism; Heterogeneous - Blending Of Colonizer/Colonized Cultures

18. Interpellation

Marxism - Lower Class (Majority); Not Financially Stable; Financially Hostaged To The Bourgeoisie; Marx Wanted These Blue-collar Laborers To Unite And Overhaul The Capitalist System In Favor Of A More Egalitarian EconomyMarxism - Means By Which Dominant Ideologies Are Expressed And Enforced In Society; Means By Which False Consciousness Is CreatedMarxism - Social Institutions (E.G. Education - Law - Media - Arts - Etc.) Derived From/Founded On The Means Of Production (Base) In A CivilizationPostcolonial - Syncretism; Heterogeneous - Blending Of Colonizer/Colonized Cultures

19. Sign Value

Marxism - Estimating The Worth Of Goods - Services - People - Ideas - Etc. In Terms Of Their Impact On Social Reputation Or Presentation (Not In Terms Of How Useful They Are)Marxism - Lower Class (Majority); Not Financially Stable; Financially Hostaged To The Bourgeoisie; Marx Wanted These Blue-collar Laborers To Unite And Overhaul The Capitalist System In Favor Of A More Egalitarian EconomyMarxism - Social Institutions (E.G. Education - Law - Media - Arts - Etc.) Derived From/Founded On The Means Of Production (Base) In A CivilizationPostcolonial - Syncretism; Heterogeneous - Blending Of Colonizer/Colonized Cultures

20. Resistance

Foucauldian - Always Possible (Although Not Always Effective) - No Matter How Despotic The Disciplinary Power; Co-extensive Or Ontological Opposition; Opposite Of Docility/InertiaMarxism - Lower Class (Majority); Not Financially Stable; Financially Hostaged To The Bourgeoisie; Marx Wanted These Blue-collar Laborers To Unite And Overhaul The Capitalist System In Favor Of A More Egalitarian EconomyMarxism - Social Institutions (E.G. Education - Law - Media - Arts - Etc.) Derived From/Founded On The Means Of Production (Base) In A CivilizationPostcolonial - Syncretism; Heterogeneous - Blending Of Colonizer/Colonized Cultures

21. Pastoral Power

Foucauldian - Shepherd-like Productive Power; Creates Followers/Disciples; Exercised More Often In Modern Nation-states (As Opposed To The Unilateral Authority Of Sovereign Power)Marxism - Social Institutions (E.G. Education - Law - Media - Arts - Etc.) Derived From/Founded On The Means Of Production (Base) In A CivilizationMarxism - Lower Class (Majority); Not Financially Stable; Financially Hostaged To The Bourgeoisie; Marx Wanted These Blue-collar Laborers To Unite And Overhaul The Capitalist System In Favor Of A More Egalitarian EconomyPostcolonial - Syncretism; Heterogeneous - Blending Of Colonizer/Colonized Cultures

22. Moment Of Convergence

Marxism - Lower Class (Majority); Not Financially Stable; Financially Hostaged To The Bourgeoisie; Marx Wanted These Blue-collar Laborers To Unite And Overhaul The Capitalist System In Favor Of A More Egalitarian EconomyPostcolonial - Syncretism; Heterogeneous - Blending Of Colonizer/Colonized CulturesMarxism - Social Institutions (E.G. Education - Law - Media - Arts - Etc.) Derived From/Founded On The Means Of Production (Base) In A CivilizationEcocritical - Condition Of Symbiosis With The Natural/Nonhuman World; Transcendence Beyond The Limitations Of Anthropomorphic Identity - Or Beyond Hierarchical Human/Nonhuman Binaries

23. Reflectionism

Postcolonial - Syncretism; Heterogeneous - Blending Of Colonizer/Colonized CulturesMarxism - Lower Class (Majority); Not Financially Stable; Financially Hostaged To The Bourgeoisie; Marx Wanted These Blue-collar Laborers To Unite And Overhaul The Capitalist System In Favor Of A More Egalitarian EconomyMarxism - Social Institutions (E.G. Education - Law - Media - Arts - Etc.) Derived From/Founded On The Means Of Production (Base) In A CivilizationMarxism - Vulgar Marxism; Theory That Literature Reflects The Economic Conditions Of The Society/Culture From Which It Derives

24. Exotic Other

Postcolonial - Conception Of Different/Non-dominant Cultures As Harmless But Interesting/AdmirableMarxism - Social Institutions (E.G. Education - Law - Media - Arts - Etc.) Derived From/Founded On The Means Of Production (Base) In A CivilizationMarxism - Lower Class (Majority); Not Financially Stable; Financially Hostaged To The Bourgeoisie; Marx Wanted These Blue-collar Laborers To Unite And Overhaul The Capitalist System In Favor Of A More Egalitarian EconomyPostcolonial - Syncretism; Heterogeneous - Blending Of Colonizer/Colonized Cultures

25. Base

Postcolonial - Syncretism; Heterogeneous - Blending Of Colonizer/Colonized CulturesMarxism - Social Institutions (E.G. Education - Law - Media - Arts - Etc.) Derived From/Founded On The Means Of Production (Base) In A CivilizationMarxist - Means Of Production; Any Non-capital Factor That Creates Economic ValueMarxism - Lower Class (Majority); Not Financially Stable; Financially Hostaged To The Bourgeoisie; Marx Wanted These Blue-collar Laborers To Unite And Overhaul The Capitalist System In Favor Of A More Egalitarian Economy

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