Meaning of misjuncture | Babel Free

Definitions

A poorly articulated connection; a joining of things that functions poorly.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Near-synonym: misunion”

“The practical understandings implied in these accounts constitute what Clark (following Sahlins up to a point⟳) calls a structure⟳ of "misjuncture" (p.70).”

“This "unpeace," at once the site of conjuncture and misjuncture, vitalizes our reading and viewing.”

“The tension between the déclassé block⟳ and the particularized solids that it houses, as well as the secondary tension of junctures and misjunctures between the voids and divergent solids, activates a zone of contradictions precariously cantilevered into a delimitable whole”

“Conversely, in the case of Papua New Guinea, Edward Schieffelin et al. argued that encounters were more often than not characterized by "a structure⟳ of misjuncture" (1991:285) as opposed to a "structure⟳ of conjuncture," inasmuch as different groups of peoples reacted in different ways to the Strickland-Purari and earlier or later exploratory patrols that passed through their territories, according to historical contingency and the orientations of their own⟳ particular cosmologies, rituals, and so on (1991:283-290).”

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