deformative

Radiant Textuality, excerpted in this issue of Praxis, theorizes how "deformative" reading made possible by debunking the canon and adopting deconstructive reading practices works in conjunction with digital media.

Presentism vs. Archivalism in Research and the Classroom: Introduction 2002

Which of course was just fine, because noon in Manhattan is still considered morning remember during my deformative years in the East Village, Sunday brunch was served till five P.M., and I never so much as considered sleep before three A.M.—or, for that matter, had dinner before nine…

Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010

A deformative effect: every time my glance returns to that finger I am startled slightly because it looks like he has no fingernail, like his skin has grown over it, and shiny from some alien use.

Gerontophile: An Imposition 2010

Which of course was just fine, because noon in Manhattan is still considered morning remember during my deformative years in the East Village, Sunday brunch was served till five P.M., and I never so much as considered sleep before three A.M.—or, for that matter, had dinner before nine…

Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010

Students find such discoveries, that is, they find the opposite experience of deformative intervention, exhilarating, even if deformation often presents poetry more akin to perceptions of the greater world realities of entropy and oblivion.

Deforming Keat's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' 2003

As much importance as De la Grammatologie had, the other book of fundamental formative or deformative importance in my career was the Biographia Literaria which was taught as a text for a semester-long seminar by Abrams.

Site One: A Romantic Education. 2002

Brenton, meantime, was becoming ten times the force he had been at Saint Peter's; the only trouble lay in the fact that now his force was, not formative, but deformative.

The Brentons Anna Chapin Ray 1905

Living organisms alone react in a formative or deformative way to external stimuli.

The Breath of Life John Burroughs 1879

Briefly, he held that the UK would have experienced a recession even without the credit crunch: it wasn't as deformative as here, but there was property boom and a speculative bubble heading for a crash even without the contagion from the sub-prime sector in the US.

The Cedar Lounge Revolution 2010

The funding model is bad and deformative -- it's as if physics research was being done with express purpose of developing better communications systems!

Planet Atheism 2009