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Deep time Marxism (noun)

/diːp tʌɪm ˈmɑːksɪz(ə)m”/

  1.  Investigation of political subjectivities which develop as direct results of geological developments and the concentration of valuable minerals in specific regions of earth’s crust (and celestial bodies in outer space).
  2. Class consciousness which develops from investigating oneself as a fossil of the future (i.e. Imagining how traces we have left in to earth’s crust and geospace [traces of radiation, concentrations of metal, space junk, etc.] will be interpreted by the Deep time Marxists of the future).
  3. A pedagogical movement working to deposit specific traces of human activity in geographically strategic sites, so that the Deep time Marxists of the far future may come to terms with their role in history.
  4. (Fig.) Of a communist or socialist ideology resurfacing from history. Ref. Geological theory of deep time which manifests itself in minerals and fossils surfacing from earth core; living fossils.
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Institutional Horizon (noun)

/instəˈt(y)o͞oSH(ə)n(ə)l həˈrīzən/

  1. A conceptual border of a public organization, behind of which ideas conceived inside the organization fold in on themselves without having an impact on the world around the organization
  2. A border behind which ideas will be appropriated by the public organization. After entities cross the institutional horizon they will lose their autonomy
  3. The endpoint of established self organized creative projects after which the project mission and/or public perception of project begin to dictate creative work of participants and organization members.