unrecuperably

comparative more unrecuperably · superlative most unrecuperably

1. In an unrecuperable manner.

   Unrecuperably dead, he cannot fulfill the hero’s economic function.

   2012, Hyon Joo Yoo, “Transnational Cultural Production and the Politics of Moribund Masculinity”, in Cinema at the Crossroads: Nation and the Subject in East Asian Cinema, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 99

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   And yet we are so far from the Elizabethans in that our post-Saussurian understanding of language, with its foregrounding, not to say fetishizing, of inbuilt structural difference and deferral—both that between signs themselves and that between the sign and any fully determinate meaning, let alone external reference—is so radically and unrecuperably counter-enactive.

   1985, Howard Felperin, Beyond Deconstruction: The Uses and Abuses of Literary Theory, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 181

   To be Indian-like appears to signal a site of ethical impossibility, an unrecuperably undemocratic enmeshment with the land that leaves one as stuck temporally as one is spatially.

   2014, Mark Rifkin, Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance, University of Minnesota Press

   Synonyms: irrecuperably