Meanings
nounsituationism (countable and uncountable, plural situationisms)
plural situationisms
- countableuncountablehuman sciencesA school of thought which holds that personality is more influenced by external factors than by internal traits or motivations.
- countableuncountablegovernmentA mid-20th-century offshoot of Marxism, influenced by avant-garde art movements.
The situationists meant to define a stance, not an ideology, because they saw all ideologies as alienations, transformations of subjectivity into objectivity, desire into a power that rendered the individual powerless: “There is no such thing as situationism,” they said for years.
1989, Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009
Origin
Translations
Finnish situationismi
- situationismischool of thought
German Situationismus, Personismus
- Situationismusschool of thought
- Personismusschool of thought
Italian situazionismo
- situazionismoschool of thought
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