misjuncture

plural misjunctures

1. countableuncountableA poorly articulated connection; a joining of things that functions poorly.

   Near-synonym: misunion

   4 more examples

   The practical understandings implied in these accounts constitute what Clark (following Sahlins up to a point) calls a structure of "misjuncture" (p.70).

   2003, Rena Lederman, “Review of Steel to Stone: A Chronicle of Colonialism in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea by Jeffrey CLARK; Chris Ballard; Michael Nihill”, in The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 112(1): 78-80

   This "unpeace," at once the site of conjuncture and misjuncture, vitalizes our reading and viewing.

   2012, Ranjan Ghosh, “Reading and Experiencing a Play Transculturally”, in Comparative Drama, 46(3): 259-281

   The tension between the déclassé block and the particularized solids that it houses, as well as the secondary tension of junctures and misjunctures between the voids and divergent solids, activates a zone of contradictions precariously cantilevered into a delimitable whole

   2015, Anna Kornbluh, “The Realist Blueprint”, in The Henry James Review, 36(3): 199-211

   Conversely, in the case of Papua New Guinea, Edward Schieffelin et al. argued that encounters were more often than not characterized by "a structure of misjuncture" (1991:285) as opposed to a "structure of conjuncture," inasmuch as different groups of peoples reacted in different ways to the Strickland-Purari and earlier or later exploratory patrols that passed through their territories, according to historical contingency and the orientations of their own particular cosmologies, rituals, and so on (1991:283-290).

   2019, David Tomas, Transcultural Space And Transcultural Beings, Routledge

   Synonyms: misjoin, misjoining, misunion