reconfigurationism

noun

An emphasis on reconfiguring what already exists rather than create something entirely new.

Scrabble 26

Meanings

nounreconfigurationism (countable and uncountable, plural reconfigurationisms)

plural reconfigurationisms

  1. countableuncountableAn emphasis on reconfiguring what already exists rather than create something entirely new.

    First aim to be achieved is, in the first place, a modular control system providing high reliability, availability and reconfigurationism.

    1982, Italy; Documents and Notes - Volume 31, page 43
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    ‘Reconfiguration’ and ‘reconfigurationism’ distinguishes itself from theories of a ‘New Aesthetic’ and pretends a more insightful and critically generative analysis.

    2017, John Cayley, “Reconfiguration: Symbolic image and language Art”, in Humanities, volume 6, number 1

    Associating this with a certain reconfiguration of long accepted sociological ideas and conceptions, we could also speak of 'critical reconfigurationism'.

    2019, Jiří Šubrt, Individualism, Holism and the Central Dilemma of Sociological Theory

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