REPIX Glossary – Artistic & Committed Neology

Explanatory note for the REPIX book or booklet:

The REPIX lexicon is based on a living language aesthetic, in perpetual reinvention. The neologisms invented here are not linguistic whims, but tools of resistance , words to express what the dominant order erases : forgotten digital memory, decolonial creativity, the textile traces of the Global South. These hybrid words—between French, Lingala, computer science, poetry, and art brut—become a militant linguistic material . They deliberately move away from dictionaries to reach the margins, the fractures, the seams. This is where REPIX weaves its language.

✅ Existing or partially recognized terms

Term	Definition	Origin / Composition	Poetic / Activist Dimension
Ghost Files	Data deleted, invisible but persistent.	Computer term misused	Evokes the forgotten or denied memories of African digital archives.
Digital Funerals	Poetic ritual to honor lost files and data.	Fusion of funerals + digital	Performative mourning in the face of digital obsolescence.
Patch-ethics	Ethics of collective repair and assembly.	Patchwork + Ethics	Soft repair, social sewing and alternatives to broken systems.
Archidata	Digital data treated as valuable archives.	Archives + Data	Valorization of digital fragments as a heritage to be preserved.
Glitchivism	Activism using digital bugs as artistic expression.	Glitch + Activism	Subversion of the system through its own flaws.

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🚫 REPIX Neologisms – Poetic and committed creations

Within the framework of REPIX, lexical creation is part of an assumed artistic and critical approach. The neologisms presented here are not a gratuitous language game, but constitute a strategy of militant enunciation , in the service of an aesthetic of reparation, memory and radical Afrofuturism.

Inspired by textiles, digital languages, African languages, and practices of artistic diversion, these terms allow us to express contemporary realities that are still little or poorly named in the institutional field. They offer an alternative vocabulary for thinking about the digital ecological crisis, aesthetic disobedience, and the reinvention of archives from the margins .

Each word thus forges its own symbolic space, situated at the intersection of art, technology, activism and poetry. This voluntary neology also constitutes an attempt at lexical decolonization , breaking away from hegemonic technical languages and dominant discourses on innovation.

These lexical creations can therefore be understood as critical and conceptual tools , aimed at supporting the theoretical reflection and committed artistic practices developed within REPIX.

Term	Definition	Origin / Composition	Poetic / Activist Dimension
REPIX	Textile revival of forgotten pixels. Digital and textile recycling project.	Recycling + Pixels	An act of symbolic reparation in the face of technological erasure.
ESI ESIMBI	Foundation behind REPIX. “What is good is recognized” (Lingala).	Expression in Lingala	Affirmation of African cultural value.
Virtualithics	The art of reactivating dead digital archives.	Virtual + Lithics	Futuristic digital archaeology.
KIZOBAZOBA	Radical aesthetics of glitch, creative chaos and color.	Invented term with Congolese sound	Affirmation of an undisciplined and Afro-glitched aesthetic.
Neonova	Cyberneon palette born from dead pixels and glitch.	Neon + Supernova	A color explosion against classic eco-green.
Memotextile	Fabric carrying digital or cultural memory.	Memory + Textile	Living archive, poetic skin of resistance.
Recycled	The art of digital and textile recycling, at the intersection of aesthetics and politics.	Recycle + Art + Otherness	Committed creation from digital or clothing waste.
Depixelation	Critical selection of data or pixels to be revalued.	Depixelization + Election	Sensitive curation of digital oblivion.
Textinaries	Activists or artists who express themselves through textiles.	Textile + Routes / Activists	Figures of gentle resistance, fabric walkers.
Pixelsonge	Poetic reverie around lost pixels.	Pixel + Dream	Digital poetry of traces and erased memories.