A collection of words and phrases that seem central to MY purview
[the scope of the influence or concerns;
ambit, compass, orbit, range, reach, scope;
the limit of someone's responsibility, interest, or activity;
an area within which someone or something has authority, influence, or knowledge of the world,
a palette that grows, interweaves, and attracts new members]
...
Some of MY Keywords have a long history in my personal lexicon; some are recently added as I recognized their salience; some are (or were) foundational, and all could/should spawn Essays in the Montaigne model; and some are sudden revelations/realizations of deeper significance.
MY Keywords are examples/instances whose internal workings (meanings, connections to other words and ideas, nuances, developmental histories) seem to me essential in my own Story of what I do, what I've done, where my curiosities have taken me. Many of those listed below seem pivot points. bearings in my own succession of focuses of interest and exploration.
...if the history of algorithm teaches us anything, then it teaches that words are freighted with historical traces for which, and even despite the endeavors of the key-words project, there may be no adequate inventory.
Ted Striphas Algorithmic Culture (239)What's important here aren't the specific categories but the importance of the multidimensional space underlying them
Stephen Downes at downes.ca
Below I list provisional candidates and set out to explore their semantic spaces, but the work of turning the list into a detailed mapping of the territory of personal significance is a challenging project, here updated to 26ix25:
affordance
algorithm
anthropo-
apotheosis
bellwether
biblio-
bricolage
cohort
creativity
Culture
curate
cyber-
denote
Development
dynamic
Ecology
explication
Form
hyper-
Image
Imagination
ineffable
Information
infrastructure
(con)juncture
landscape
lexicon
macramé
map (v. and n.)
mashup
Meaning
meme
meta-
Mind
Narrative
nexus/nexial
paradigm
parlance
parse
Pattern
phyto-
portentous
process
quixotic
region
salience
Semantics
Serendipity
signification
Story
Surreal
synoptic
Systems
technē
trajectory
verisimilitude
vernacular
wetware
whimsy
Zeitgeist
Bound Phrases
'world model'
'semantic field'
'social media'
'artificial intelligence'
'modern life'
'guilty pleasures'
'octogenarian [w-]reckoning'
(and many more...)
See further mappings and imbrications of MYKeywords
30ix25 collection re: Williams 1976 et seq.