An advocate or creator of new vocabulary that has substantial, unique, and relevant meaning to a particular language or culture that has yet to be accepted as part of formal grammar.
Me: I definitely just roffled!
You: What do you mean by roffled?
Me: Roffled is the past tense of the acronym ROFL.
You: You are such a postscriptionist, but I agree that makes perfect sense!
A movement in science studies that moves beyond the hermeneutics of suspicion—beyond always asking what power, ideology, or hidden interest lies behind scientific claims. Postcritique doesn'treject critique but supplements it with attention, repair, and reconstruction. It asks not just "what's wrong with this science?" but "what's valuable? What can we build? What should we preserve?" It's science after the deconstruction, after the critique, after the suspicion—still critical, but also constructive, also caring.
"We've spent decades deconstructing this field's biases. Scientific Postcritique says: okay, now what? What's still useful? What do we build next? Critique without reconstruction is just nihilism with better vocabulary."
An approach to knowing that moves beyond the hermeneutics of suspicion—beyond the reflexive questioning of every knowledge claim's hidden interests, power relations, and ideological functions. Postcritique doesn't abandon critique but recognizes that perpetual suspicion is exhausting and ultimately barren. It asks what we can affirm, what we can trust, what we can build. It's epistemology that has done its therapy, processed its trauma, and is ready to risk believing again—knowing the risks, choosing to trust anyway.
"You've gotten so good at deconstructing every claim that you can't believe anything anymore. Epistemological Postcritique says: critique is a tool, not a permanent address. At some point, you have to risk trusting, knowing you might be wrong. Suspicion as a lifestyle is just another kind of certainty."
Cigarette: Northern slang for a cigarette, used oft by mashed up mancunian ravers becasue of the resemblance of a hot(electric)stove to the end of a lit cigarette. Originated circa 1991 in the early halcyon days of the rave culture; we speculate during a drug fuelled hallucination by said manc.
'fuck me noel, i am bolloxed, is that a ciggy in your mouth, or the stove from me 'nans kitchen'/
General use: 'Give us a stove you cunt'