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This work-in-progress xenoglossary functions as a database of the projects, concepts, and publications that use the ‘xeno’ morpheme and explore the contemporary landscape of ‘xeno.’ The xenoglossary is part of the project Xenology (tilde press, 2025) by Vít Bohal.

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xeno-agent – Reza Negarestani: “outsiders” and “Avatars of the outside [that] awaken the insurgent potential inherent to the State’ts Occult entities,” (p. 82); “demons,” (p. 116). [Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials (Melbourne: re.press, 2008).]

xenoarchaeology – Robert A. Freitas Jr. : “the search for evidence of ancient visitation by interstellar travelers.” Xenoarchaeology has more recently been proposed as a field for further exploration for example in Ben W. McGee’s essay “A call for proactive xenoarchaeological guidelines – Scientific, policy and socio-political considerations” which prompts the formulation of an axiomatic for archeological explorations in space. Xenoarchaeology appears as a literary trope in many major 20^th century sci-fi works, an eminent early example being Arthur C. Clarke’s short story “The Sentinel” (1951). [Robert A. Freitas Jr., Xenology: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Extraterrestrial Life, Intelligence, and Civilization, First Edition (Xenology Research Institute, Sacramento, CA: 1979); Ben W. McGee, “A call for proactive xenoarchaeological guidelines – Scientific, policy and socio-political considerations,” Space Policy, vol. 26, no. 4 (November, 2010): 209-213.]

xeno-architecture – Xeno-architecture was originally formulated by Armen Avanessian and Markus Miessen in the publication Crossbenching, where they propose a “a xeno-architecture of knowing.” The idea was then further developed in the project Perhaps We Need a Xeno-Architecture to Match as a response to the “conceptual stagnation and fundamental miscommunication between on the one side a Critical attitude, with a capital C, being an end-in-itself, and on the other side a more and more complex, insecure, contingent (digital) world.” (Bauwens). A performative event in Kaaitheater in Brussels was held in April 2017, and a collection of multilogues was published by Sternberg Press in 2018, featuring Armen Avanessian, Benjamin Bratton, Kathleen Ditzig, Daniel Falb, Anke Hennig, Victoria Ivanova, Markus Miessen, Luciana Parisi, and Patricia Reed. [Markus Miessen, Crossbenching (Sternberg Press, 2017); L. Bauwens, W. De Raeve, A. Haddad, Perhaps We Need a Xeno-Architecture to Match (Sternberg Press, 2018).]

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xenobiology – In a 1954 personal letter, Robert Heinlein describes a possible taxonomy of the ‘xeno’ morpheme on the particular example of biology (Wooster), proposing “xenobiology” as a better alternative to the prefix ‘exo-’ (i.e. ‘exobiology’) which he considers too nebulous and otherwise “tired and mean[ing] too many things.” He proposes xenobiology as a speculative science of extraterrestrial physiology. Xenobiology was also recently proposed as a subfield within the field of synthetic biology, with Budisa et al. defining it as “an emergent technoscience that combines advances in genetic engineering with the design of biological systems based on unusual biochemistries delivered by chemical compounds of mostly anthropogenic origin. Xenobiology enables us to create and study strange new life forms” (Budisa et al.). Ewen Chardonnet writes that “Synthetic biologists define Xenobiology as the study of any life-form departing from natural terrestrial life, whether on Earth or elsewhere.” (Chardronnet) The preliminary statement of the first international conference on xenobiology organized in Genoa in May 2014 states that “Xenobiology (XB) is the endeavor to overcome the constraints imposed by evolution on natural living organisms. It is an emerging field in the context of synthetic biology, encompassing the design, generation and evolution of alternative forms of life.” (XB1) Aliens in Green (ed.) pithily reflect the ethical and institutional particularities of the XB1 conference in their publication The Laboratory Planet, no. 2 (2016). [Wooster, Harold. “Xenobiology.” Science, vol. 134, no. 3473(21 July 1961): 223-225; Budisa, Nediljko Prof.; Dr. Kubyshkin, Vladimir; Dr. Schmidt, Markus. “Xenobiology: A Journey towards Parallel Life Forms.” (2 April, 2020): 2228-2231; Ewen Chardronnet, “Human Xenobiology,” The Laboratory Planet, no. 2 (2016), XB1, “The First Xenobiology Conference (XB1),” Biofaction channel, YouTube.]

Xenoblade Chronicles – The video game is part of the Xeno series by Japanese game designer Tetsuya Takahashi. The original Xenoblade Chronicles game was published for the Nintendo Wii in 2010. In a 2022 interview Takahashi said that the “idea of ‘foreign things becoming one’ is something we have been trying to express since the time of Xenogears back in the day. A person’s life is basically built up of relationships with other people. A relationship with foreign things. […] The relationship between “Xeno” (foreign) things is at the core of the series that bears this name.” [Tetsuya Takahashi and Koh Kojima, “Ask the Developer Vol. 6, Xenoblade Chronicles 3–Part 1.”]

xenobot – A popular account for Wired magazine defines xenobots as “living robots, made up of masses of cells working in coordination.” (Simons) They were first developed in 2019 from the experimentation on the cells of the African Clawed Frog (Xenopus laevis), performed by Sam Kriegman, Douglas Blackiston, Michael Levin, and Josh Bongard, and eventually given the name xenobots. The team aimed to “demonstrate a scalable approach for designing living systems in silico using an evolutionary algorithm, and we show how the evolved designs can be rapidly manufactured using a cell-based construction toolkit.” (Kriegman et al.) [Matt Simons, “Meet Xenobot, an Eerie New Kind of Programmable Organism,” Wired (13 January 2020), Kriegman et al., “A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms,” PNAS vol. 117, no. 4 (13 January 2020): 1853-1859.]

xenobuddhism – “Xenobuddhism is neither Buddhism nor accelerationism nor transhumanism. It is born from their convergence. It’s Buddhism once exposed to the mutagen, the black liquid. It’s the technocommercialist takeover of dharma in the realisation that techniques for realisation have outpaced humanity.” [Xenobuddhism]

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xeno-call – “…turning the outsider into an insider, the intensive operative of horror from within.” [Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials (Melbourne: re.press, 2008), 203.]

xenocapitalism – “consciousness – a phantasmatic surface-effect of […] a kind of writing-machine. […] This automation, vested in a generalised technicity, defines the contours of what insistently figures as the ‘real.’ It marks an event horizon between a hermeneutics of thought & the admission of the Freudian ‘thing’ – that thing that thinks – in which the work of comprehension (& work as such) is inscribed as if in advance of itself as the index of an impossible object.” [Louis Armand, Entropologies (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2022), 56.]

xenochemical (adj.) – Negarestani uses main nouns such as ‘xeno-chemical Insider,’ i.e. petroleum which is “not of the Earth but of the Outside” (p. 72); ‘xeno-chemical particles,’ i.e. “Outsiders” which are assembled by Dust on Earth as “components from different milieus so distant from one another that they can operate for each other only as outsiders.” (p. 90); or ‘xenochemical hydro-currents,’ i.e. “what in ancient Greece was called cosmic wetness (hydrochemical singularities).” (p. 113). [Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials (Melbourne: re.press, 2008).]

xeno-communication – Reza Negarestani: “Communications of data traffic based on the plane of being opened (by) instead of being opened (to).” [Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials (Melbourne: re.press, 2008), 244.]

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xenoerotics – [David Roden, Xenoerotics. London: Schism² Press, 2023]

xenoestrogens – “‘foreign’ estrogens, substances that are close enough in molecular structure to estrogen that they can bind to estrogen receptor sites with potentially hazardous outcomes. Sources of Xenoestrogens include plastics, pesticides, chemicals, and water systems.” (Oyelowo); “Xenoestrogens are particularly dangerous to animal and human health because they are persistent, ubiquitous chemicals in the environment that bioaccumulate and may even be activated further as a result of biotransformation.” (Wittliff et al.) [Tolu Oyelowo DC, “Estrogen Concepts,” Mosby’s Guide to Women’s Health (2007), accessed 7 July 2023 in Science Direct, J.L. Wittliff and S.A. Andres, in Encyclopedia of Toxicology (Third Edition), in Science Direct (2014).]

xeno-euphoria – One of the three paths to freedom (the other two being Ravespace and Enlustment) in McKenzie Wark’s recent analysis of rave practice. “Xeno-euphoria: mind submerged in flesh, chemically estranged into otherness.” [Wark, 29]; “xeno-euphoria: Time becomes stringently horizontal. Neither rising nor falling, just sideways swelling and slimming. The body slots in, to time, finding itself stranded through itself, through losing the form of its being in time. I have to be patient, open, present for it. Let thinking flake off and fall away from the I. Then comes the pretty strangeness, into this body, out of the drugs it took, the beats it endures.” [McKenzie Wark, Raving (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2023), 19.]

xeno-excitation – excitations in their “wielders of human hosts” induced by “inorganic demons.” [Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials (Melbourne: re.press, 2008), 224.]

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xenofeminism – Xenofeminism (XF) was developed in 2014 by the Laboria Cuboniks collective (Diann Bauer, Katrina Burch, Lucca Fraser, Helen Hester, Amy Ireland, Patricia Reed) from the Berlin workshop “Emancipation as Navigation,” organized by Reza Negarestani, Armen Avanessian and Pete Wolfendale. According to the “manifesto” Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation, XF is constructed as “a feminism of unprecedented cunning, scale, and vision; a future in which the realization of gender justice and feminist emancipation contribute to a universalist politics assembled from the needs of every human, cutting across race, ability, economic standing, and geographical position. [0x01] […] Xenofeminism is a rationalism. To claim that reason or rationality is ‘by nature’ a patriarchal enterprise is to concede defeat. It is true that the canonical ‘history of thought’ is dominated by men, and it is male hands we see throttling existing institutions of science and technology. But this is precisely why feminism must be a rationalism–because of this miserable imbalance, and not despite it. There is no ‘feminine’ rationality, nor is there a ‘masculine’ one.” (0x04) [“Emancipation as Navigation: From the Space of Reasons to the Space of Freedoms,“ deontologistics, event brief. Laboria Cuboniks, “Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation,” laboriacuboniks.net (2015).]

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Xenogenesis – A science fiction series by American author Octavia E. Butler, consisting of the novels Dawn(1987), Adulthood Rites (1988) and Imago (1989). The series untangles themes linked to genetic engineering, species survival, sexuality, gender, and race through the story of Lilith Iyapo. Waking up 250 years after a nuclear apocalypse, Lilith finds herself in the custody of the Onkali, an alien race that interbreeds with other species to create genetic hybrids and lifeforms.

Xenoglossy – Considered the miraculous use of language that one does not know or has not learned. Xenoglossy was considered a major component of Medieval Culture as explored by the scholarly work of Christine Cooper-Rompato.

Christine Cooper-Rompato’s study on female xenoglossia in the late medieval period reveals that the gift of tongues was a crucial aspect of religious culture, particularly in saints’ lives and canonization procedures from the twelfth to fifteenth century. Cooper-Rompato connects this phenomenon to the apostolic model, the rise of mendicants, and a growing emphasis on preaching, missionary work, and accurate translation. In a society deeply concerned with the process and consequences of biblical translation, xenoglossia seemed to offer a solution by promising complete equivalence between languages and a desire for “pure translation” that does not alter the text in any way.

However, Cooper-Rompato argues that instances of xenoglossia were clearly gendered. While men received long-lasting gifts of tongues for large-scale preaching and conversion, women’s gifts were more limited in scope and duration, often occurring in semiprivate settings and emphasizing vulnerability and a lack of control over the language. The female saints Cooper-Rompato cites, such as Clare of Montefalco and Colette of Corbie, received brief gifts of xenoglossia to help themselves or others in specific moments, unlike men whose xenoglossia contributed to their reputation as preachers and teachers. [Cooper-Rompato, Christine F.. The Gift of Tongues: Women’s Xenoglossia in the Later Middle Ages,. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010.]

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xenobiotics / xenohormones – Anthropogenic chemicals contained in plastics, petrochemically derived pesticides, emulsifiers found in soaps and cosmetics, or meat from industrially-grown livestock have been found to be disruptive of human hormonal and reproductive health. “The endocrine-disrupting effects of many xenobiotics can be interpreted as interference with the normal regulation of reproductive processes by steroid hormones.” (Danzo) [B.J. Danzo, “The effects of environmental hormones on reproduction,” CMLS (1998): 1249-1264; Lenka Veselá, ed., Synthetic Becoming (Litomyšl: K. Verlag and Brno FaVU, 2022).]

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Xenolanguage – “A story game for 3-5 players in 3-4 hours. […] Xenolanguage is a game about first contact with alien life, messy human relationships, and what happens when they mix together. Play centers on the Platform: a custom channeling board of mysterious origin. Use a planchette-like Lens to channel over alien symbols as you receive and interpret messages. Players will progressively discover meanings for the alien symbols on the board, grapple with what they learn, and experience how it changes them. The base game of Xenolanguage includes a custom channeling board with 30 alien symbols, planchette-like lens, story deck and digital soundscapes. This game takes inspiration from soulful sci-fi stories (Arrival, Story of Your Life, Contact, Interstellar and many more) but you’ll tell your own story.” [“Xenolanguage,” Thorny Games (2024)]

xenology – The science of the xeno, its contemporary meanings and semantic permutations in time. Originally developing from the sci-fi worlds of Robert Heinlein, it was later adopted by writers such as Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Robert J. Freitas or artist Krzysztof Wodiczko. Robert J. Freitas proposes it as a catch-all term for the study of extraterrestrial intelligence and artefacts of alien (i.e. non-terrestrial) provenance. See Vít Bohal, Xenologies: Sociality on an Alien Planet (tilde press, 2025). [Robert A. Freitas, “Naming Extraterrestrial Life,” Nature vol. 301 (January 1983): 106.]

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Xenomars – Producer and artist based in London, UK. #web3music #nftmusic #techno #breakcore #IDM [Alex Mazey, “Neo-China Arrives from the Future,” interview with Xenomars, Public Pressure (2023).]

Xenomelia – also known as Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) or Amputee Identity Disorder, is a rare psychiatric condition characterized by a persistent desire to acquire a physical disability, often in the form of a specific body part amputation or paralysis. Individuals with xenomelia feel that a certain body part, such as a limb, doesn’t belong to them or that they would feel more “complete” without it.

Xenomoney – The term is derived from Brian Rotman’s work, In Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero. Rotman investigates into how the sign for zero fundamentally transformed arithmetic calculations, the practice of perspectival painting, and the nature of economic exchange. Zero functions for number signs in a manner akin to how the vanishing point operates in perspectival images, just as imaginary money relates to number signs. Further he defines the xeno dimension of xenomoney “as the threatened collapse of the world money system from the past, from unsupportable debt… the money part of it threatens… collapse from the future, from an unsustainable mutability of money signs created by the financial futures markets.” Unlike traditional forms of money backed by gold or other commodities, xenomoney is divorced from any external source of ‘intrinsic’ value by fiat (decree). As a sign, xenomoney is forced to create its own signified, its own perceived value, written in terms of its future states. [Brian Rotman, Signifying nothing: The semiotics of Zero (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2001).]

xenomorph – A fictional endoparasitoid extraterrestrial species, the main antagonist in the Alien film series. Its form was derived from H.R. Giger’s Necronom IV (1976) print and was played by Bolaji Badejo in the original film.

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Xeno-patterning: For Luciana Parisi, in the realm of contemporary artificial intelligence, particularly in the field of machine learning, the concept of alienness takes on a new and profound significance. Unlike traditional models of computational cognition that rest upon the deductive logic of symbolic AI, the post-Turing shift towards interactive computing reveals that incomputables play a crucial role in the generation of novel patterns that are not pre-programmed for a specific task. Paraphrasing Parisi, alienness becomes central to the very process of pattern formation. However, this also diverges from synonymising alienness with the indeterminacy of thought or shattering the recursive reproduction of patterns. Instead, alienness is intrinsically woven into the logic of fallibility, accounting for how indeterminacy transforms the transcendental order of conceptual thinking into a xeno-patterning for counter-factual image-models. [Luciana Parisi (2019) XENO-PATTERNING, Angelaki, 24:1, 81-97]

xenopedia – The wiki for the Alien vs. Predator franchise, operating since 2006. [Xenopedia, accessed 7 July 2023, https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page.%5D

xenophenomenology –Dylan Trigg defines it as an “unhuman phenomenology […] a phenomenology that runs against the notion that description is a guarantor of truth […] a genuine alien phenomenology in that it is concerned with the limits of alterity.” Trigg considers it to be a solution to phenomenology’s contemporary stasis. [Dylan Trigg, The Thing: A Phenomenology of Horror (Zer0 books, 2014), 6.]

Xenoplanetary – Alistair Rennie’s sixth album, released in 2023 as part of his sonic project Ruptured World. It is the fourth work in the “Planetary” concept series (Exoplanetary, Archeoplanetary and Interplanetary) released under the Cryo Chamber label. “Enter a domain of ultimate strangeness—an alien eco-system of forested peaks and escarpments that conceal a raft of secrets in the hidden valleys that lie among them.” (Cryo Chamber Bandcamp) [Alistair Rennie]

xenopoetics – A poetics collusive with outside agency. “Xenopoetics has something to do with composing out of distorted materials. One page is missing, one or two lines are pseudonymously or anonymously quoted, one scene leaks from the future to the past, an object evades chronological sequences, a number turns into a cipher, everything looms as an accentuated clue around which all subjects aimlessly orbit, leading into an eclipsed riddle whose duty is not to enlighten but to make blind (aporos to the light).” (Negarestani, xviii)

Amy Ireland has written a dissertation on the topic, remarking in an interview with A. J. Carruthers: “Very crudely stated, there is an outside to experience that informs it, yet cannot be known by experience. Xenopoetics takes this notion of the outside its area of concern and devises tactics for the cultivation of traffic between this space and the restricted economy of human-conditioned representation, which, significantly, includes language. Technological excruciation, structural porosity, corrupted authorship, numerical incursion, inauthenticity, encryption, temporal leakage, formal horror, perverse topologies… these things all have their place in a xenopoetic arsenal.” (Carruthers, 94) [A.J. Carruthers, “Poetry is Cosmic War,” interview with Amy Ireland, Rabbit Poetry Journal, no. 17 (February 2016); Amy Ireland, Xenopoetics: Time, Matter, Transmission, dissertation for UNSW Sydney (2019), Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials (Melbourne: re.press, 2008).]

xeno-power / xeno-solidarity – Aliens in Green define xeno-power as collusive with “an alien capitalism, denying present and past humankind ontologies.” They propose xeno-solidarity as a force which may foster “alien resilience” in the face of the “anti-terrestrial spirit of capitalism.” [Aliens in Green, “Aliens in Green,” Mary Magic, “Becoming Non-Alien,” Synthetic Becoming, Lenka Veselá, ed., (Litomyšl: K. Verlag and Brno FaVU, 2022).]

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Xenoscience, Eden Institute of – “The Institute specializes in xenobiology, xenology, xenopsychology, xenodiplomacy and xenolinguistics, although it also covers many related disciplines. It collects information from all known alien biospheres and cultures, sending out expeditions to study new alien species and acting as consultants on all forms of human-alien interactions. It has branch institutes located on practically every world with living intelligent aliens, and many local universities educating bionts in trans-species interaction.” The Orion’s Arm Universe Project is a collective world-building effort set in “a scenario set thousands of years in the future where civilization spans the stars. Godlike ascended intelligences rule vast interstellar empires, and lesser factions seek to carve out their own dominions through intrigue and conquest.” [Encyclopedia Galactica, “Eden Institute of Xenoscience” Orion’s Arm Universe Project (2023), accessed 7 July 2023, https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4793e4a2c1030.%5D

Xenoslavia – The Šum collective of Slovenia published their issue no. 16 (September 2021) under the title Xenoslavia: Covert Chronologies. In her essay “A Peculiar Transformation,” Enea Kačič develops a speculative history for the year 2020: “After Yugoslavia was renamed Xenoslavia, the Western imperial order watched the implementation of quadratic financing, quadratic voting and radical markets with increasing bewilderment and a growing zeal for military intervention, as young people from France, Germany, the UK and even the USA suddenly began to identify with values radically different from Western ones,” (p. 2196). Editor Tisa Troha gives the following shout-out in her “Introduction”: “To paraphrase Nick Land: ‘Read Xenoslavia, and vibe…’” [Maks Valenčič, Tisa Troha, eds., Xenoslavia: Covert Chronologies, Šum no. 16 (Ljubljana: Družstvo Galerija Books, 2021).]

xenosystems – Nick Land’s original Outside In blog at xenosystems.net. Now available through the Wayback Machine.

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xenotation – Appeared on the Hyperstition blog in 2004 as “tic xenotation” – a system for “the formulation of numeric conventions independent of all cultural conditioning or local convention,” designed by the fictional Daniel C. Barker and emerging during “the highly obscure phase of his life when he was working for ‘NASA’ (some hesitation is appropriate here) on the SETI-related ‘Project Scar’ in Southeast Asia, tasked with designing a ‘general purpose decryption protocol’ for identifying intelligent signal from alien sources.” [Hyperstition blog (7 July 2004)].

xenotemporality – A concept by Laboria Cuboniks member, Diann Bauer for her PhD dissertation project at the Westminster School of Arts: “Xenotemporality (XT) is based on the idea that the human experience of time has historically guided our conception of it but that this anthropogenic conception of time is too parochial for our current needs. The primacy of human phenomenological experience of time is no longer sufficient for how we organise, inflect and orient the systems we have created because these systems function on scales beyond the experiential capacity of the human.” Fellow colleague Patricia Reed considers Diann’s XT as “extra-human” time.[Diann Bauer, “Xenotemporality,” UK Research and Innovation. Patricia Reed, “Xenotemporality and Infrastructures for Survival. In Commemoration of Diann Bauer,” Youtube, ‘ViennaUP’ channel (8 July 2022).]

xenotext – An ongoing bio-art work by experimental Canadian poet Christian Bök. Bök aims to encode a poem as a strand of DNA and implant it into the extremophile bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans. The bacterium would then read this strand of DNA and produce a protein which is also an intelligible poem. The bacterium would be sent to space as a testament to human presence in the cosmos. Louis Armand writes that “What sets Bök’s The Xenotext apart” from other messages sent by humanity to extraterrestrial space “is its ambivalent status as artefact; neither aesthetic commodity nor message-to-the-cosmos in any straightforward sense, it represents an autopoiēsis founded in biological cybernetics – an attempt, as Bök says, at a ‘living poetry.’ Its medium is the stuff of evolution.”[Aaron Soupouris, “The prose at the end of the universe: Programming ‘indestructible’ bacteria to write poetry,” Engadget (30 December 2015), accessed 8 July 2023, Louis Armand, Entropology (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2022).]

xenotopia (D. H. Lewis) – Darcy Hudleson Lewis’ dissertation entitled “Xenotopia: Death and Displacement in the Landscape of Nineteenth-Century American Authorship” (2017) defines ‘xenotopias’ as “strange places wherein a venerated American landscape has been disrupted or defamiliarized and inscribed with death or mourning. As opposed to the idealized settings of utopia or the environmental degradation of dystopia, which reflect the positive or negative social currents of a writer’s milieu, xenotopia[s] record the contingencies and potential problems that have not yet played out in a nation in the process of self-definition.” [Darcy Hudleson Lewis, “Xenotopia: Death and Displacement in the Landscape of Nineteenth-Century American Authorship,” dissertation, UNT (2017).]

xenotopia (Dr. Who) – “Xenotopia was a small planet at the edge of the universe. During the Last Great Time War, the War Master used it as one of his bases of operations.” [‘Xenotopia,’ Tardis Wiki.]

Xenotopia (song) – “Xenotopia” is the sixth single by j-pop singer Mimori Suzuko. Released on 25 May 2016, it peaked at #8 on the Oricon single chart.[“Xenotopia,” j-pop wiki, Fandom, accessed 8 July 2023, https://jpop.fandom.com/wiki/Xenotopia#cite_note-1.%5D

Xenotopia, Vol. 1 (magazine) – Radical Openness, Chronocommons, Eastern Futurism, Manifesto Reflux, Psychogeography, Great Flood, Anachrony, Necropolitics, Specters Cataclysm. [Zsolt Miklósvölgyi and Márió Nemes, Xenotopia Vol. 1 (ISBN Books and Gallery, 2020).]

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Xenowar – A speculative concept for a “war that is both new and familiar” proposed by Tom Sear. “Xenowar is the Clausewitzean trinity spun in recursive loops of alterity, where conflict diagonalizes into an inhuman, alien cognition […] from this black hole of Xenowar will pulse another type of Un­War, fought at the edges of the
incomputable […]” [Tom Sear, “Xenowar Dreams of Itself,” Springer Nature: Digiwar, (Jul 23, 2020):1–8.]

Xenowars (video game) – “A turn­based strategy/RPG game set in the stars […] recruit a team of experts on
Earth for exploring a distant alien homeworld, choosing between scientists, mutants, and soldiers. Scour the planet for lost alien technology and uncover the secrets to Earth’s doom.” [Strategeions Studios, released 24 October 2024.]

It is a work in progress and will continue to be updated. If you have sighted a xenoproject, drop us a line at glagol@protonmail.com or vbohal@gmail.com