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paranoiac-critical en · ADJ
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(not-comparable) 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.
[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" […].
2013, Drew Daniel, The Melancholy Assemblage, page 140: