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reconfigurationism en · NOUN

Etymology

From reconfiguration + -ism.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) An emphasis on reconfiguring what already exists rather than create something entirely new.
   • Associating this with a certain reconfiguration of long accepted sociological ideas and conceptions, we could also speak of 'critical reconfigurationism'. 2019, Jiří Šubrt, Individualism, Holism and the Central Dilemma of Sociological Theory:
   • ‘Reconfiguration’ and ‘reconfigurationism’ distinguishes itself from theories of a ‘New Aesthetic’ and pretends a more insightful and critically generative analysis. 2017, John Cayley, “Reconfiguration: Symbolic image and language Art”, in Humanities, volume 6, number 1:
   • First aim to be achieved is, in the first place, a modular control system providing high reliability, availability and reconfigurationism. 1982, Italy; Documents and Notes - Volume 31, page 43:

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