Vikaas spectrum

Political compass that orients an individual's political standing based on their culture of origin.

Grounded in a distinction between low-context and high-context cultures.
The Vikaas spectrum or compass orients the political spectrum within three sociocultural axes: aesthetic and linguistic, individualist vs collectivist, and stoic vs dramatic.
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Cool

Michael Jordan's apprisal of commercials for the consumer-oriented McDonald's was a cool deconstruction of the 1950's model athlete
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baroque

Aesthetic that follows cues of cyclical time; a cyclical time aesthetic particular to high-context Southern European Catholic countries in the 17 and 1800's. Reflected in its successors including modernism (in particular art deco) and supermodernity (in particular neomodernism).
Philadelphia follows Baroque time in its case Italian design motifs reinforced by German architectural interpretations.
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epistemology

Structure of verification.

Also: the study of a structure of verification.

Meta-structure.
The blockchain is an example of an epistemology.

Epistemology can also be the study of blockchain and structures of verification related to it.
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nihilism

One's sense of time in the three paradigms of consciousness.

Values include linear, cyclical, and undecidable (illusory) values.
Nihilism identifies timesense as the sole element of epistemology.
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realkampf

The contrapositional relationship between representation and aesthetic.

Ie. The representation, the object, or the subjective as a confounding experience preventing the observer from seeing the aesthetic (objective).
Realkampf propounds that representation-in-attribute blinds the observer to aesthetic-in-itself.
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memetic skeuomorph

Aesthetic contra-reference that contains decidable information.

An augmented-reality attribute in hyper-reality that serves a functional purpose.

A virtual attribute made of a functional (homoiconic) computer language.

Contains attributes of aesthetic self-reference.

Direct technological precursor to conscious self-reference.
Memetic skeuomorphs contra-referential, recursive, and functional.
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