Canonical definitions
Post-Social Glossary
A reference point for the original concepts and recurring terms used across Post-Social.
- Memory Continuity
- The effective survival of understanding and the accurate transfer of meaning through time. Read the primary essay
- Human Archive
- The people who carry the stories, context, relationships, feelings and perspectives that make records understandable. Read the primary essay
- Memory Pyramid
- A framework moving from key, to story and identity, to perspective, and finally to meaning. Read the primary essay
- Key & Data Centre Model
- A photograph or record acts as a key; the human mind is the data centre containing the understanding it unlocks. Read the primary essay
- Discovery Problem
- The failure that occurs when preserved records cannot be reliably found, recognised or understood later. Read the primary essay
- Assumption Problem
- The loss created when everyone assumes somebody else will preserve the story, context or access needed later. Read the primary essay
- Perspective Principle
- No single memory is complete; multiple viewpoints create richer understanding and stronger continuity. Read the primary essay
- Archive Obesity
- The accumulation of more preserved material than people can organise, interpret or meaningfully revisit. Read the primary essay
- Semantic Starvation
- A condition in which records survive but the names, relationships, stories and context required to understand them do not. Read the primary essay
- SMAK
- Source, Method, Assessment and Knowledge: a framework for deciding when a conclusion has earned the right to become knowledge. Read the primary essay
- Born Digital
- Post-Social writing from a generation that has never known a world before continuous internet access and social technology. Read the primary essay
- Post-Social
- Life and culture beyond the assumptions, incentives and continuous feeds of conventional social media. Read the primary essay