Glossolalia: Tidings from Terrestrial Tongues

Authors: Bettina Korintenberg, Rachel Libeskind, Robert Preusse, Stefanie Rau

Glossolalia
[ˌɡlɑsəˈleɪlɪə]

Related terms: Co-Creation, Cosmology, Earthly, Eingefaltet-Sein (German), Erdkunde (German), Inframundo (Spanish), Interwoven, Leaking, Terrestrial, Texture

»Glossolalia« refers to the act of speaking in an unknown language or – as in our case – in a language not yet fully known. The words that are needed to thoroughly articulate the realities of »becoming terrestrial«, and all the subsequent implications of new entanglements and relationships, have yet to be defined and enunciated. This collection of words and concepts is needed because it is necessary to understand and describe the Critical Zone we inhabit. Our aim in compiling these descriptions is to provide to our readers and ourselves the verbal tools with which we can specify and understand our territory, subsistence, and experience in the terrestrial. To speak in Glossolalia is to forge a new tongue by becoming terrestrial. We consider this collection a starting point – to set out toward a linguistic common ground.

More about the exhibition »Critical Zones. Observatories for Earthly Politics«

 

A - B - C - DE - F - G - H - IK - L - M - N - O - P - R - S - T - U - V - W - Z

 

A

Act
Action, actor
Agency
Ambiguity
Anthropocene
Anthropogenic transformations
Assemblage
Assembly
Attachment
Autochthon
Autopoiesis

 

B

Becoming-with
Bedrock
Betroffenheit
Bio-culture
Biophilia
Biosphere
Blended
Bodenhorizont (DE)
Bodenlos (DE)

 

C

Carbon Cycle
Carbon Sink
Care
Chthulucene
Climate Pathways
Co-Creation
Commitment 
Common
Communal Knowledge 
Community
Composition/Compositionism
Compost
Consumption 
Contamination
Cosmogram
Cosmology 
Critical Zone
Critical, Criticality 
Critter
Cybernetics
Cycles, Zyklizität

 

D

Diatome
Differance 
Displacement
Disruption
Dissassociation 
Dwelling

 

E

Earth jurisprudence
Earthbound
Earthly, Earthling 
Echo
Ecocide
Ecological Unconscious
Ecology
Embedded 
Embodiment
Emission
Empathy
Encounter
Encumbered
Endosymbiosis 
Energy
Envelope
Environmental Collapse 
Erdkunde (DE)
Erdreich
Eschatology
Ethics
Euclidean space
Exodus 
Extinction
Extraction

 

F

Failure
Falte, Faltung, Eingefaltet-Sein
Flow
Flower Diplomacy
Fractures
Fragility
Futurity
Fuzziness 

 

G

Gaia
Gaiagraphy
Gavagai
Geo-class 
Ghost Acreage
Grief
Grundraum

 

H

Habitat
Heat Island
Heimat (DE)
Heimatkunde
Hinterland
Holobiont
Homeostasis
Homesteading
Hybridity

 

I

Inframundo
Interconnections
Intermingled 
Intermundium 
Intersectionality
Interspecies
Interwoven

 

K

Kin-Making
Klimabild
Kuleana

 

L

Lachesis
Land, landing
landen
Landnahme 
Layer
Leaking
Life-form, Lebensform (DE)

 

M

Melting
Meshwork
Metamorphoses
Microbial Mats
Middle Ground 
Milieu
Model 
Mondialisation
Moriña
Motherland
Mutual 

 

N

Networks
New Climatic Regime
Noosphäre
Nutrients

 

O

Oikos
Open Form
Organism, Organic, Organ-
Overlapping

 

P

Patrie
Permeability
Petro-sexual politics
Pfropfen
Plant Variety Protection Act (PVP)
Poetics of Relation 
Porosity
Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder

 

R

Radicalizing the local
Recycling
Refuge, Refugium, Refugee
Repairing
Representation 
Reproduction
res extensa 
Resilience
Resonanz
Responsability
Risk
Ritual 
Rodina
Rootedness
Ruin

 

S

Saudade
Scale
Sedimentation
Seed Sovereignty
Self-Critical Zone
Simulation
Situatedness
Soil 
Solastalgia
Solidarity
Spores
Spin Up & Baseline
Stranded Assets
Stratigraphy
Stromatolites
Subjectivity
Subsistence
Sun
Swamp

 

T

Technosphere
Terraformers
Terra Nullius
Terrestrial
Terrestrial Time
Texture 
Theatrum Botanicum
Threatened
Threshold
Time horizon
Togetherness
Trajectory 
Transformation
Transliteration
Transubstantiation
Transversality 
Turf

 

U

Umwelten (DE)
Uncertainty
Unencumbered 
Unheimlich
Unpredictability
Unsteadiness

 

V

Voir venir
Vulnerability

 

W

Wandel
Waste, Waste-to-Energy
Water
We
Weltall
Weltschmerz
Wetness
Witness
World-systems theory

 

Z

Zeitlos
Zoning