bricolage

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It "loves us" because it is inevitable; we "love it" as a way of mastering, by ingenious bricolage, the language that saturates us anyway.

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  1. noun Something made or put together using whatever materials happen to be available: "Even the decor is a bricolage, a mix of this and that” (Los Angeles Times).

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  • It "loves us" because it is inevitable; we "love it" as a way of mastering, by ingenious bricolage, the language that saturates us anyway. —  Papa
  • Mason & Dixon is, in short, a kind of bricolage of eighteenth-century science, religion, philosophy, myth, fable, and superstition, all treated on the same narrative plane, as equally true and equally fantastic. —  Entropology
  • Virtually every aesthetic device or feature attributed to postmodernism-bricolage of tradition, play with the popular, reflexivity, hybridity, pastiche, figurality, decentering of the subject-could be found in modernism. —  The Valve
  • While these two sadly never legally available records are the founding documents of modern audio bricolage, they also share almost nothing in common except for beats and pieces of G.L.O.B.E. & Whiz Kid's "Play That Beat Mr DJ". —  The Wire
  • "glass" warm up you're going to be happy you gave this the chance to grow on you. bricolage - bricolage there's seems to be a pattern in scottish music which has veins part bitter and part raucous. this glaswegian band has created an album of poppy goodness that every once and a while bites back. i'm trying to avoid using sour patch kids as a reference ... the big pink - a history of love with vocals that swoon and swell with shards of guitar and drums, this album is a sonic gem. by far one of my favorites of the year, a history of love lives up to its bravado. —  Free People Clothing Boutique Blog
 

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  1. French, from bricole, trifle, from Old French, catapult, from Old Italian briccola, of Germanic origin.
 

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