situationism
nounEtymology From situation + -ism.
1
Human sciences, Psychology, Sciences A school of thought which holds that personality is more influenced by external factors than by internal traits or motivations.
2
Government, Politics A 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:
- Related terms
- situationist, Situationist International