…or at least, the ones studying media, culture, society, that sort of thing.

hypomnesis: “recollection through externalized memory”

mnemotechniques: “the artificial storage of individual memories that characterizes hyomnesis from ideogrammatic writing to the print revolution”

mnemotechnologies: “the embedding of memories within technological systems that systematically order memories according to their own logics,” “technology that systematically orders memories”

Grammatization: “the history of exeriorization of memory in all its forms: nervous and cerebral memory, first linguistic, then auditory and visual; bodily and muscular memory; biogenic memory

transindividuation: the process of individuation as a phase in the processes of others undergoing individuation with the influence of technics (Gilbert Simondon).

hyperindustrialization: “the generalization of a mnemotechnological reproducibility of the motor behavior of consumers”

Now my only question is why weren’t these words on the GRE?

_{Stiegler, Bernard. 2010. Memory. In Critical Terms For Media Studies, 65-87. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.}