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- noun The process or result of
decontextualizing .
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Examples
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Long before Andy Warhol and crew got the idea of decontextualization as the means to seeing things as they are, science fiction was mainly about seeing what happens when you transplant a cultural norm into a different society, usually by means of a technological story telling device. it was not all techno whiz larry niven (who later on also started contemplative sci fi with the Mote in gods eye) or space opera flash gordon. think about flowers for algernon, or the canticle for lebowitz, the lathe of heaven, farenheight 451 ....
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One question that arises is "decontextualization" of practices that emerge from a particular tradition or stance, long standing or otherwise.
Archive 2008-11-01 Michelle 2008
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One question that arises is "decontextualization" of practices that emerge from a particular tradition or stance, long standing or otherwise.
Acme School of Meditation Michelle 2008
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I had brought along the essay of an American critic, Stephen M. Fjellman, from his book Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and America, that proposes the word "decontextualization" for what goes on here.
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I had brought along the essay of an American critic, Stephen M. Fjellman, from his book Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and America, that proposes the word "decontextualization" for what goes on here.
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Quote-mine's are concerned with changing the meaning of a passage through selective editing or decontextualization.
Blast From the Past 2010
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I first typed, in a significant error, text being authored by text ... when, really, there's always someone behind any decontextualization.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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I first typed, in a significant error, text being authored by text ... when, really, there's always someone behind any decontextualization.
ROSARY POETICS 2008
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In a remarkable stroke of decontextualization, our favorite developers in Dubai have concocted the largest indoor snow park in the Mall of the Emirates, itself one of the largest malls in the world.
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In a remarkable stroke of decontextualization, our favorite developers in Dubai have concocted the largest indoor snow park in the Mall of the Emirates, itself one of the largest malls in the world.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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