Experimental glossary: Concepts for understanding contemporary society

Abstract

This glossary, which is composed by short contributions by a diversity of authors, works as a map to situate a battery of ten of Karl Marx’s key concepts. The authors were invited to participate and experiment with texts of a maximum of three-hundred words. In contexts where academic articles tend to remain within anchylosed writing structures, experimentalism appears as a necessary form of oxygenation. Within this framework, the explanation of concepts –exposed here in alphabetical order– is done with both formal and expressive flexibility. These entries converge in the common aim of understanding the significance of these concepts for the current moment. The glossary includes the following terms: (1) Accumulation, (2) Alienation, (3) Base and Superstructure, (4) Emancipation, (5) Exploitation, (6) Commodity Fetishism, (7) Ideology, (8) Class Struggles, (9) Revolution, (10) Labour.