reconfigurationism
nounEtymology From reconfiguration + -ism.
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An 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:
- ‘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:
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- 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: