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Etymologies
- Coined by Bruce Sterling in 2004, as a blend of space and time. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A "spime" the word -- a contraction of "space" and "time" -- was coined by sci-fi writer Bruce Sterling is an object that, thanks to GPS and sensors, is aware of where and when it is, and can record and communicate these data.”
“And as Sterling had chosen a nonsense word for "spime" a concept with which I'd been previously familiar, I decided to do the same.”
“Sterling is moving freely in the landscape he is examining and with a extraordinary open mind he creates new concepts and ways of thinking, and even new words -- like "spime".”
“A 'spime' should also encompass relationships between things, and not just the "thingness" itself. (b) the sound of it (as Adam noted above).”
“There are a couple of things that have made me uncomfortable about the word 'spime': (a) the fact that it might be too easy to confuse with an "object".”
“I think about Bruce Sterling's "spime" in this context, and I see it as clearly connected to the tasks of the humanities and rhetoric and composition.”
“* Later this year I gotta do a presentation in France about the concept of "spime" and what happened to it.”
“Sterling coins the term "spime" for them, these future manufactured objects with informational support so extensive and rich that they are regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system.”
“But then I am reminded of that horrible gooey interface used to plug into people in eXistenZ - it somehow seems appropriate that it should be a horrible gooey word, and not something that can disappear politely … So I like onto / ontome because it speaks to my first concern about 'spime'; but my second concern, it turns out, is not the problem I thought it was, and so onto / ontome might be … ahem … too euphonic!”
“The first spime they've designed is a smart application of distributed computing in the service of sustainability.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘spime’.
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Substancestry
Mysterious and theoretical substances and "stuff" of legend. More emphasis on the ancient, mystical, mythical, folklore, mathematical, and scientific. I won't be listing too many "sci-fi" or comed...
ylem, ichor, aether, ectoplasm, impossible object, quark star, eucharist, pixie dust, eitr, elixir of life, philosopher's stone, alkahest and 126 more...
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hyblends
words that never were; always are; and probably will not becoming forth (or fifth or seventh.....)
hyblend, nashrash, syllergy, herenow, wonderburst, beattitude, havetude, beance, nowance, amusic, bestance, circlestance and 291 more...
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WF - Word Formation Words
Classes of words and types of word formation
sniglet, protologism, portmanteau word, blend, telescope-word, frankenword, double-entendre, compound, derivative, palindrome, spoonerism, malapropism and 152 more...
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Neologistics
Basically this is a "words about words" list with a focus on neologism generation in all its various forms.
wordplay, paronomasia, madeupical, logodaedaly, onomatopoeic, verbification, nominalization, recontextualization, spoonerism, typo recycling, sloganeer, wordsmith and 59 more...
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bkerr's Words
wyrd, absinthe, homunculus, zorkmid, informon, decider, diachronic, frak, hwæt, feldercarb, yawp, dogfooding and 540 more...
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mwiik's Words
singularity, ephemeralization, transcendence, posthuman, destiny, ubicomp, commons-based pee..., spime, silicon, social singularity, technosocial, phenotype
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HidingInABunker's Words
hypnagogia, psychographic, dysphoria, resonance, synchronicity, aponia, ataraxia, orthogonal, ubuntu, recursion, animus, unix and 6 more...
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Inteloquent
Useful or stunning intelligence and concepts in regards to logic, order, books, cleverness, planning, and academia.
indexical, corrigenda, operationalization, acumen, chaordic, stratagem, casuist, deliberative, acuity, deus ex machina, reconnoiter, mythographer and 72 more...
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johnca's Words
synecdoche, stigmergy, kurtosis, equanimity, interdependence, nonviolence, defenestration, nondualism, entelechy, holon, wiki, laughter and 19 more...
Tweets
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sionnach Where is Borges when we need him?
Paging el maestro novidente. Oct 29, 2008
bilby Chained_bear, you crack me up. Oct 29, 2008
edwardvielmetti The next stage is an object that does not exist yet. It needs a noun, so that we can think about it. We can call it a "Spime," which is a neologism for an imaginary object that is still speculative. A Spime also has a kind of person who makes it and uses it, and that kind of person is somebody called a "Wrangler." At the moment, you are end-using Gizmos. My thesis here, my prophesy to you, is that, pretty soon, you will be wrangling Spimes.
(Bruce Sterling, aka bruce flatware, Siggraph 2004) Oct 17, 2007
chained_bear But what does this, or enspiming, mean? Right now it's just like recursion. (See recursion.) Oct 17, 2007
edwardvielmetti see also enspiming Oct 17, 2007