Meaning of worldbreaking | Babel Free

Definitions

The act of destroying or throwing into disorder a world or worldview.

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Examples

“The article suggests that worldmaking inevitably involves worldbreaking not simply in the sense of transforming already existing world versions but in terms of the co-existence of world versions within a single location. Pussy Riot’s action ‘Mother of God, Chase Putin Away’ in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour forms the case in point, drawing out the dynamic between worldmaking and worldbreaking and showing how it is inevitably and powerfully bound up with performance and context.”

“The gist of the workshop was worldbuilding with worldbreaking in mind.”

“Without being limited to children, WoW’s experiment in worldbreaking with the Cataclysm expansion could be seen as combining media influence with the force of seeing precious landscapes destroyed.”

“While reproductive labour may be devoted to reproducing the social order, it is also devoted to destroying it. The values implied by the continuous work of care and replenishment are not the values of the social order that is actually being cared for and replenished. This dynamic is intensified in queer worldmaking; queer worldmaking is not only making queer worlds in the spaces afforded by dominant normativity. Queer worldmaking is also straight worldbreaking.”

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