Lexicon
A living glossary
Not textbook definitions, but the way we use these terms when we talk about transformation. The last six come from the Liminal Editions books: it is the same language.
↳ 22 terms · 16 from the studio + 6 from the books
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Threshold
A space of passage where you are no longer what you were and not yet what you will be.
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Liminality
The posture of the consultant who inhabits the border between the known and the unknown.
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Grammar
A flexible structure that takes shape in dialogue, not a format to be applied.
↳ 04 / 22
Device for surfacing
A situation designed to surface what is already there but not visible.
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Cultural readiness
The mental and organisational infrastructure that makes it possible to really use AI.
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Tacit knowledge
Implicit know-how made of practices and shortcuts that were never formalised.
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Resonance
Authentic adoption, not compliance imposed from above.
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Rite of passage
Technological adoption as a symbolic event, not merely an IT one.
↳ 09 / 22
Cognitive debt
What AI makes visible once delegating becomes a habit.
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Fertile question
A question that opens spaces instead of closing them onto an answer.
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Deep listening
A design attitude that precedes any operational proposal.
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Generative convergence
The point where different tensions contaminate each other without dissolving.
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Custody
Distributed governance, not centralised control.
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Unlearning
Recognising automatisms and choosing when to abandon them.
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Embodied strategy
A direction of meaning born from listening to the existing system.
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Post-human
A gaze that widens the conversation beyond anthropocentrism.
↳ from the books
System Zero
The artificial voice that answers before you have finished thinking: fast, plausible, without scars.
↳ from the books
Camera Obscura
The room in which to watch how AI inverts the images we hand it.
↳ from the books
Turing’s Cat
The daily test: not whether the machine thinks, but what you do when it seems to.
↳ from the books
Fabula Rasa
The temptation to restart the story from scratch with every answer.
↳ from the books
Confident Attitude
Critical intimacy with artificial otherness: the posture that does not go obsolete.
↳ from the books
Negative capability
Staying in uncertainty without grabbing an answer straight away. Five grams of resistance.