Meanings
- In a way marked by binarism; in a binaristic manner.
This is why Deleuze and Guattari say it is time to "make the multiple" (A Thousand Plateaus), to learn to "see" pluralistically rather than binaristically.
2000, Debra Diane Davis, Breaking Up (at) Totality: A Rhetoric of Laughter, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 1712 more examples
[…] Levi-Straussian tradition, as binaristically ordered through the opposition of clean and unclean or of raw and cooked. […] (linguistically or alimentarily) binaristically ordered as trying to explore the relationship between food and language ...
2004, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, Kitchen Culture: Literature, Eating and the Body Politic in the Nineteenth-century United States[…] a tagline that instantly positions Mugabe as the incarnation of evil against the “good men”, binaristically encoded in the poster as “the White Africans” of the title.
2015, Anna Bernard, Ziad Elmarsafy, Stuart Murray, What Postcolonial Theory Doesn't Say, Routledge, →ISBN
Origin
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