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Definition of totalize in English: totalize(British totalise) verb ˈtəʊt(ə)lʌɪzˈtoʊdlˌaɪz [with object]usually as adjective totalizingCombine into a total. totalizing theories of history Example sentencesExamples - But it also participates in that taxonomic and totalizing impulse by disallowing for the possibility of alternative histories of sexualities that may or may not have fit under the fin de siècle homosexual rubric.
- As Sartre and other commentators noted, a disbelief in a unifying or totalizing system, means that the absurd hero cannot purport to be explaining the world, himself, or events and people surrounding him.
- She has borrowed not his mode of interpretation but, rather, his tendency to treat culture and society as totalizing phenomena, which at best severely constrict independent self-determination.
- The Seduction of Place provides a history of the ever more totalizing solutions which have been proposed to ameliorate the problems of the modern city.
- In assuming such a possibility, Shaw's study is very much akin to the uncritical and totalizing movement of Lukacs's thought in The Historical Novel.
- It is in the experience of this plastic journey's ‘ideated and controlled movements’ that the artist's totalizing idea of reality, the subject of the painting, is achieved.
- What is unacceptable is thus that which undermines the totalizing vision; and totalizing visions are inevitably comprised from a facile distinction between truth/falsity, good/evil.
- Contrary to all comprehensive and totalizing theological traditions, we expect that we will have to discern God's will for us in our own age, occasion by occasion, without the benefit of an infallible this-worldly authority.
- Although caste, class, gender, and ethnic configurations interrupt totalizing narratives of nation, these very same considerations offer us a way to rearticulate the significance of national spaces.
- By excavating these ruins of information's past, the author hopes to gesture beyond totalizing visions of information society as knowledge-based utopia or Orwellian dystopia.
- Much of the political art of the modernist period, and certainly that produced by totalitarian regimes, had been boringly realist and only too obviously subordinated to totalizing ideologies.
- The metonymic process depends on the substitution, in a sequence, of a series of metonymies for the novel's totalizing metaphor, with each metonymy representing a repetition of the novel's metaphor.
- However, these utopian dreams were soon subsumed by the demands of the Party, which held a more totalizing conception of art.
- In that simple, totalizing assumption we find the kernel of almost every problem the administration has faced over recent months - and a foretaste of the troubles the nation may confront in coming years.
- Le Sueur's historiography is a return to such totalizing historical narratives, and as such, situates even this late work much more within the framework of modernism than postmodernism.
- It shared the distaste of postmodernism for totalizing theory and it embraced the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- The New Urbanism, by contrast, often aims at a more totalizing transformation of space, ambitiously imposing its principles and physical picture by erasing that which preceded it.
- Jacqueline Rose asks an extremely pertinent question of Jameson's totalizing account of postmodern schizophrenic subjectivity.
- The spiritual poverty of the colonized man, that stance, gave Aquin the freedom he needed to attack all totalizing systems - political, philosophical and aesthetic.
- Their variety of environmentalism is merely the latest totalizing ideology to arise in the West over the past two centuries.
Derivatives nountəʊt(ə)lʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n There is a restriction of the types of discourse and thus a tendency against all totalizations; thus also the guiding principle of postmodernism. Example sentencesExamples - This is both a simplification and a totalization of human participation in communications technology, and measurement of the human gaze is one of its key interfaces.
- It is clear from your writing that you see such phrases as part of our colonial legacy and that you constantly struggle with language to create words which challenge constrictive totalizations.
- Sexton's reluctance to conclude her writing on a resounding, authoritative, and thus normative and reassuring note is a sign of refusal to concede to totalization and of a wish to keep multiple interpretive possibilities open.
- The functionalist sublime, conversely, dictates that a literary or artistic work have no object of representation: its meaning or significance lies in its totalization as sheer material facticity.
Definition of totalize in US English: totalize(British totalise) verbˈtōdlˌīzˈtoʊdlˌaɪz [with object]usually as adjective totalizingComprehend in an all-encompassing way. grand ideas and totalizing worldviews Example sentencesExamples - It was the first time I was exposed to a totalizing institution that was far worse than the violence and boredom of school that I experienced in the States.
- All this notwithstanding, his text is rather prone to making finalizing, totalizing claims in order to be able to say what steps must be taken ‘to fully understand’ the rules of such and such a game.
- The critique offered is that although postmodernism seeks to relieve the world of totalizing views, it claims in itself a specialness and rightness, therefore leaving little room for other perceptions and worldviews.
- In this way, a comic ensemble by Mozart is not so unutterably different from what we can find in Kagel, who ‘well knows that a totalizing worldview and aesthetics contradict the idea of an aesthetic modernism’.
- Running multiple cameras provides a series of parallel glances, which may, when placed together, say more about the city than an explicitly ‘framed’ or more totalizing approach.
- Are they bent on mass murder and in the name of a totalizing ideology?
- Contrary to his writings on the totalizing impact of ideological reproduction under advanced capitalist societies, Althusser allows for times and spaces of resistance in his essay on the theatre of Carlo Bertolazzi and Bertolt Brecht.
- The inadequacy of this totalizing image of the future as something already decided is slowly evident as the supine linearity of his trip on 47th Street unravels, fraying into encounters.
- Yet, to what extent does a totalizing view of the sexualized female body as regressive deny, or at least overlook, the potential for alternative, forward-looking female subjectivities?
- His method is worked out within a totalizing discourse in which he speaks from the position of the child, trapped within linguistic double-binds and subject to linguistic imperatives that cast his whole identity into doubt.
- That last, I think, is crucial if one hopes to drain powerful cultural forms of their totalizing political punch.
- Accounting drafts the entire world according to the general instrument of exchange value, a totalizing index of human activity in the image of monetary incomes and outcomes.
- The novel's generic traits, polyphony, and dialogism are also metaphoric of one of its central themes: resistance to a totalizing, or as Bakhtin calls it, ‘centripetal’ force.
- For one thing, the category ‘popular music’ has expand to include such a wide variety of styles that such totalizing conclusions are loaded with far too many exceptions to be of much help.
- While socialism as a comprehensive, totalizing vision melts away among both workers and intellectuals, it is the core democratic values European socialists supported that he sees as the essential distillation of that movement.
- Diabetes is not simulated or encountered as a totalizing concept; instead it is veiled through personal, often idiosyncratic vision, sound and fantasy.
- Though for the sake of simplicity I have spoken of ‘the problem of biotechnology,’ it would be a mistake, I would argue, to view biotechnology as somehow a totalizing worldview.
- One of the most productive means of reading this form of French feminist theory (and psychoanalytic theory in general) is to regard it as a descriptive rather than prescriptive and totalizing narrative.
- In the exercise of totalizing power, capital punishment constitutes a limiting case - yet for this very reason, it may be a good place to plumb the ultimate capacities of the oppressed to respond, resist, and create.
- No matter the philosophical and political objections to the totalizing and even brutalizing potential of narratives, many early American historians insist there must be a way to have their social history and their stories too.
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