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outdated
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outdated adjective anachronistic, anachronous, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, behind the age, behind the times, bygone, dated, defunct, demode, discarded, disused, expired, extinct, fallen into desuetude, fallen into disuse, forgotten, former, gone by, gone out, grown old, no longer customary, no longer fashionable, no longer in style, no longer prevailing, no longer prevalent, no longer stylish, not current, not in vogue, not modern, obsolescent, obsolete, of a previous fashion, of a previous style, of great age, of old, of the old order, of the old school, old, old-fashioned, old-time, old-world, olden, out-of-fashion, out-of-use, outmoded, outworn, passe, past, primitive, quaint, rejected, stale, styleless, superseded, unaccepted, uncontemporary, uncurrent, unfashionable, unpracticed, unstylish


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By its very definition, fashion hinges on a temporality that condemns its participants to imminent outdatedness.
There are some clever moments in "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off " but not enough to compensate for its outdatedness.
And yet in Beavers's hands such archaism functions rather to allegorize the outdatedness of his medium; Work Done, for instance, seems to insist on film's embed-dedness in an episteme of manual labor (one sequence noses around a construction site, others compare camera movement to the work of a bookbinder or a European cook) as well as of perceptual defamiliarization (the impossibly slow fall of a chainsawed tree mirrored in the impossibly dilated rhythm of Beavers's montage).
 
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