An annoying thing about picking words to use for things is that major uses that came before are often inconsistent. For example, the word "atemporality" means interesting but slightly different things in the ways @bruces @GreatDismal mean it, versus the way Ursula Le Guin used it
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In the earlier Le Guin sense (as in Dispossessed or Left Hand of Darkness), it has a connotation of the timeless cyclicality of domestic temporal "indoors". In the cyberpunk sense it has connotations of anomic temporal "outdoors" chaos.
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Isn't that the problem of defining something by what it isn't? I'm reminded of Catch 22 and the Anabaptist
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Yes, same problem as "nonlinear" or Tolstoy "unhappy families"
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