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formation noun arrangement, array, coinage, concoction, configuration, conformatio, construction, creation, efformation, establishment, figuration, forma, format, foundation, generation, genesis, institution, invention, layout, manufacture, order, origination, production, structure, synthesis See also: arrangement, building, composition, configuration, content, contour, coverage, creation, distribution, embodiment, form, genesis, invention, item, lineup, manufacture, nascency, order, organization, performance, scope, shape, structure, unit How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| 2) But whether we identify its emergence in second-wave feminism's self-conscious swerve, or as a reaction formation to exclusionary ethnic programs, whiteness studies becomes a defence of the status quo when it loses its critical self-consciousness, whether conjoined with feminist, queer, or postcolonial discourses. Having, at the very beginning of my career, passed through a phase of enthusiasm for first, psychoanalysis, and then, by means of some reaction formation, modern learning theory, I have spent most of my career as a researcher disillusioned with theory, behaving much as a typical positivist. And further, Krauss argues in the second part of her essay, the new series of collages Picasso now begins to produce, collages in which strong color and the divisionism of Seurat are introduced for the first time, can be understood as a comparable reaction formation to the "machine" an of Picabia, Leger, and the despised Futurists. |
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