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ASD

ASD
/ˌeɪ.ɛsˈdi /
abbreviation (coined, art & cultural criticism)

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A cultural condition in which algorithmic systems, platform mediation and pervasive digital representation reshape social life and individual identity - producing fragmentation of the self, the flattening of experience into curated feeds, and a blurred or displaced relation between physical presence and digital persona.
→ Coined by Chong Yan Chuah in his project ASD Algorithmic Societal Disorder.

(figurative) A social syndrome signalled by algorithmic acceleration, affective numbing, ritualised spectacle, and the outsourcing of memory or legacy to databanks and machine-learned avatars (digital afterlife).

Form: used attributively (ASD aesthetics), mass noun (the city fell into ASD), rarely plural.
Register: academic / art criticism / cultural commentary (metaphorical; not a clinical diagnosis).
Etymology: abbreviation of Algorithmic Societal Disorder. Term introduced by artist Chong Yan Chuah.
“The exhibition staged a world steeped in ASD where avatars, mannequins and algorithm-pushed imagery recompose human bodies as synthetic sculptures.”
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A sad dog
~Dog: Sad
Random guy : Oh asd!
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When a man doesn't want to name a file..
I was saving a file and couldn't think of a name for it so I just did "asd"
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