Posthumanist Culture

The social, artistic, and philosophical landscape that emerges when humanity is no longer the default or the endpoint. It's a culture created by and for beings who have radically augmented their biology, merged with machines, uploaded their consciousness, or been designed from conception. Values shift from natural origins to chosen upgrades, identity becomes fluid and multiplex, art is created by AIs for AIs, and concepts like mortality, privacy, and individuality are either obsolete or radically redefined. It’s less about humanism's "man is the measure of all things" and more about "consciousness is a substrate, and experience is a design space."

Example: "Posthumanist culture isn't about movies or music; it's about shared dreamscapes engineered by uploaded artists, fashion that involves modifying your personal gravitational constant, and debates about whether a baseline human is a form of cognitive disability."

by Dumuabzu January 29, 2026

Tenta-culos

Person who touches booty.

I didn't know he was a tenta-culos.

by to_nai_ghtt February 11, 2026

Socio-culturally illiterate

People who are so phone dependent that they have almost lost the ability to read.

I'm not a machine-dependent brat. Neither am I Socio-culturally illiterate; I can read a book by Sarah Knight.

by Sexydimma March 13, 2026

Ivory Culture

The cultural form of ivory towers, ivory fortresses, ivory courts, and related institutions—the shared norms, values, practices, and assumptions that permeate academic and intellectual life. Ivory culture includes the reverence for credentials, the obsession with citation, the privileging of theory over practice, the suspicion of outsiders, the language of expertise as a barrier to entry, the performance of objectivity, and the unexamined belief that the academy's ways of knowing are simply better than others. Ivory culture is what produces academics who can discuss Foucault but not talk to their neighbors, who can deconstruct power but not recognize their own, who have spent decades mastering their fields but never questioned why their fields are structured as they are. It's the water intellectuals swim in, invisible to them but shaping every move.

Example: "At the conference, everyone spoke the same language, cited the same texts, laughed at the same jokes—not conspiracy, just Ivory Culture, the shared atmosphere of a world that has forgotten there's air outside it."

by Dumu The Void March 14, 2026

Pop Culture Orthodoxy

The established, institutionalized set of beliefs, tastes, and judgments that define mainstream popular culture—the often-unexamined assumptions about what's "good," "important," "relevant," or "cool" within entertainment, media, and cultural consumption. Pop culture orthodoxy includes commitments: that certain movies, music, and celebrities are canon; that some cultural products are "high art" while others are "trash"; that taste is personal but some tastes are clearly better; that engagement with pop culture is essential to social belonging; that certain narratives and representations are progressive while others are problematic. Like all orthodoxies, it provides shared reference points and community, but it functions as cultural gatekeeping—determining who's "in" and who's "out," what's worthy of attention and what's beneath notice, which interpretations are "correct" and which are "missing the point." Pop culture orthodoxy is maintained by critics, influencers, fan communities, and media institutions that police the boundaries of acceptable taste.

Example: "He didn't just dislike the movie—he treated her enjoyment of it as evidence of bad taste, as if pop culture orthodoxy had declared it objectively terrible. The orthodoxy's power is making cultural judgments feel like universal truths."

by Dumu The Void March 17, 2026

Mass Culture Orthodoxy

The established, institutionalized set of beliefs about mass culture itself—the often-unexamined assumptions that mass culture is inevitable, that it serves the people, that it reflects popular taste, that it's democratizing, that criticism of mass culture is elitist, and that engagement with mass culture is simply normal. Mass culture orthodoxy includes commitments: that cultural production should be market-driven, that popularity indicates quality, that mass audiences get what they want, that cultural critique is snobbery, that alternatives to mass culture are nostalgic or impractical. Like all orthodoxies, it naturalizes particular arrangements—making mass culture seem like simply "how culture works" rather than a specific historical formation shaped by capitalism, technology, and power. Mass culture orthodoxy determines what cultural forms are visible, what alternatives are unthinkable, and who counts as "in touch" versus "out of touch."

Example: "He dismissed independent media as irrelevant because 'nobody watches that'—as if popularity were the measure of value. Mass culture orthodoxy had made market success feel like cultural significance."

by Dumu The Void March 17, 2026

Hustle Culture Psychosis

A mental state caused by prolonged exposure to “grind” or hustle culture, where a person develops distorted beliefs about productivity, success, and self-worth. Individuals may equate rest with failure, overestimate the consequences of slowing down, and undervalue their own well-being

While not yet a clinical disorder, it can lead to burnout, anxiety, sleep deprivation, and a warped sense of priorities

Easily mistaken for "ambition" or "discipline" (usually by the person suffering from it)

marshal: what was that old documentary you were talking about with those people who were suffering from hustle culture psychosis in the '60s?

matthew: oh you mean Salesman (1969)? Yeah it's messed up

by Malokingi23 March 25, 2026