Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
schizopolitics. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
schizopolitics, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
schizopolitics in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
schizopolitics you have here. The definition of the word
schizopolitics will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
schizopolitics, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Etymology
From schizo- + politics.
Noun
schizopolitics (countable and uncountable, plural schizopolitics)
- A pattern of action that undermines the status quo, especially that which causes capital to be spent on actions antithetical to capitalism.
1990, Pequod, volumes 31-33, page 95:The grappling of philosophy and psychology with the same sea of now questionable, doubtful concepts may lead to nothing more than a glorification of schizophrenia and “schizopolitics” that helps build careers, not housing; […]
1996, Alison Maginn, Exploding Genres: Spanish Narrative in the 1980's, page 45:Here it must be pointed out that in putting forth a schizopolitics in opposition to the forces of repression, Deleuze and Guattari are not advocating the behavior of the mentally insane or depressed patients isolated in the asylum, […]
2012, John Zerzan, Future Primitive Revisited, page 94:Certainly the ruins are there for everyone to see. From exhausted art in the form of the recycled mish-mash of postmodernism, to the poststructuralist technocrats like Lyotard, who finds in data banks "the Encyclopedia of tomorrow...'nature" for postmodern man," including such utterly impotent forms of "opposition" as “micropolitics" and "schizopolitics," there is little but the obvious symptoms of a general fragmentation and despair.