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单词 situationism
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Definition of situationism in English:

situationism

nounsɪtjʊˈeɪʃ(ə)nɪz(ə)mˌsiCHo͞oˈāSHəˌnizəm
mass noun
  • 1The theory that human behaviour is determined by surrounding circumstances rather than by personal qualities.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • No-one actually knows what situationism is because they everyone falls asleep within 2 seconds of starting to read a ‘text’.
  • 2A revolutionary political theory which regards modern industrial society as being inevitably oppressive and exploitative.

Derivatives

  • situationist

  • adjective & noun
    • At the same time, the claims for the poet as a stable position, as master of signification, the situationist, which might be read into such a passage, need themselves to be thrown into the same processes.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Stanley Milgram and I, budding situationists in 1949, both went on to become academic social psychologists.
      • The campaigners who are fighting this kind of mentality draw on a heritage from the left that stretches back at least to Guy Debord and the situationists, who sprang to prominence in 1968.
      • It was a description of a transhistorical Event, a break-out embracing Anabaptists, situationists, Dadaists, surrealists, punks.
      • Again, it is interesting that we are two situationists who came from the same neighborhood.
      • Desecrating the grave of the revolution, they borrow heavily from the situationist movement, but use it with the biggest effect since McClaren or the Manics.
      • For me though, the whole situationist thing has been reduced to a series of myths that psuedo-intellectual undergrads trot out as some kind of benchmark of subversive behaviour.
      • Here I'd suggest that the answer lies in the direct converse to the famous situationist graffito ‘Be realistic, demand the impossible!’
      • As a situationist joke, he suggests the town should apply for the £500,000 prize offered by a communications company to help improve the worst places in Scotland.
      • There's a situationist expression about demanding the impossible; he's one of those people who can make the impossible happen.
      • The Invisibles is a wild, disorientating, surreal adventure which splices big screen thrills to situationist philosophising.
      • In September 1995, Bill Drummond, pop star, writer and situationist prankster was invited by Belgrade's renegade radio station B92 to première his infamous film Watch The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid in the capital's Republic Square.
      • The great situationist experiment continues.
      • This uniquely dangerous man is on the very cusp of unseating the tinpot dictators, having apparently captured the imagination of his countrymen, from the highest to the lowest, with terrorist acts and bizarre situationist stunts.
      • At least their singer knew that the days of Malcolm McLaren's situationist media provocation were well and truly over.
      • Keyboards burble mournfully, walking basslines practically sprint, drums sizzle and snap like Rice Krispies left out in the rain, and the divine Ms. Em slingshots situationist slogans straight at our heads.
      • As they are art college-inspired, there's situationist experimentation afoot.
      • Was it some kind of situationist art installation designed to highlight the grottiness of the lavatory?
      • The band were created to be this situationist thing.
      • The situationists ' mapping and idea of the city as human centred, erotic space influenced the farthest reaches of the newly mediated Western world.
 
 

Definition of situationism in US English:

situationism

nounˌsiCHo͞oˈāSHəˌnizəm
  • The theory that human behavior is determined by surrounding circumstances rather than by personal qualities.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • No-one actually knows what situationism is because they everyone falls asleep within 2 seconds of starting to read a ‘text’.
 
 
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