Situationism
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A school of thought which holds that personality is more influenced by external factors than by internal traits or motivations. countable, uncountable
- 2 A mid-20th-century offshoot of Marxism, influenced by avant-garde art movements. countable, uncountable
"The situationists meant to define a stance, not an ideology, because they saw all ideologies as alienations, transformations of subjectivity into objectivity, desire into a power that rendered the individual powerless: “There is no such thing as situationism,” they said for years."
Example
More examples"The situationists meant to define a stance, not an ideology, because they saw all ideologies as alienations, transformations of subjectivity into objectivity, desire into a power that rendered the individual powerless: “There is no such thing as situationism,” they said for years."
Etymology
From situation + -ism.
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