situationist
situationist adjective: pertaining to situationism.
Adjective
situationist (not comparable)
- Pertaining to situationism.
- Psychogeography was formed and validated by a situationist group discourse and culture that couldn't be just blanked out at will. In fact Debord presented the situationist maps of Paris and the “theory of the dérive” precisely in order to ratify group activity, codifying all sorts of overblown...1999, Simon Sadler, The Situationist City, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 78
- While members of the cell he is meeting no doubt consider themselves revolutionaries, their call to arms is Fast Company, the rapidly growing magazine that began in April of 1995 with a bold series of declarations blending Situationist sloganeering with Madison Avenue exhortations.2000 March 5, Tom Vanderbilt, “The Capitalist Cell”, in The New York Times Magazine
Noun
situationist (plural situationists)
- A person who subscribes to situationism.
- In 1976 and 1977, and the years to follow, as symbolically remade by the Sex Pistols, it was, perhaps, dadaists, lettrists, situationists, and various medieval heretics.1989, Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009
Forms of situationist
| plural | situationists |
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Origin of situationist
From situation + -ist.
Questions about situationist
- What does situationist mean?
- Situationist means pertaining to situationism.
- What part of speech is situationist?
- Situationist can be an adjective or a noun.
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