Paranoiac-critical

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to the Dalian surrealist technique of inducing a paranoid state in one's own mind in order to deconstruct the psychological concept of identity, such that subjectivity becomes the primary aspect of the artwork. not-comparable

    "[T]heir motions tend to convey a kind of implicit critique of the social as surface, as empty speech, and commence a paranoiac-critical stance toward society which is refigured into a kind of dumb show through such a differential "depth of field" […]."

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"[T]heir motions tend to convey a kind of implicit critique of the social as surface, as empty speech, and commence a paranoiac-critical stance toward society which is refigured into a kind of dumb show through such a differential "depth of field" […]."

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