The Unofficial Lexicon of Late-Stage Capitalism

This page serves as a living glossary of terms, phrases, and concepts that recur throughout my writing, many of them unofficial, emergent, or deliberately under-defined elsewhere. Its purpose is simple: to name patterns that are widely experienced but rarely articulated, particularly those arising from late-stage capitalism’s influence on behaviour, design, labour, identity, and power. While the focus remains firmly on capitalist systems and their effects, this lexicon also includes selected terms relating to neurodivergence, disability, accessibility, and cognitive load, not as a diversion, but because these domains repeatedly collide with economic agendas in ways that expose structural priorities, hidden incentives, and ethical fault lines. This is not a neutral dictionary, nor a comprehensive one; it is a practical tool for clarity, shared reference, and resistance to linguistic vagueness.