reconfigurationism

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English

Etymology

From reconfiguration +‎ -ism.

Noun

reconfigurationism (countable and uncountable, plural reconfigurationisms)

  1. An emphasis on reconfiguring what already exists rather than create something entirely new.
    • 1982, Italy; Documents and Notes - Volume 31, page 43:
      First aim to be achieved is, in the first place, a modular control system providing high reliability, availability and reconfigurationism.
    • 2017, John Cayley, “Reconfiguration: Symbolic image and language Art”, in Humanities, volume 6, number 1:
      ‘Reconfiguration’ and ‘reconfigurationism’ distinguishes itself from theories of a ‘New Aesthetic’ and pretends a more insightful and critically generative analysis.
    • 2019, Jiří Šubrt, Individualism, Holism and the Central Dilemma of Sociological Theory:
      Associating this with a certain reconfiguration of long accepted sociological ideas and conceptions, we could also speak of 'critical reconfigurationism'.