détourn
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To subject to detournement; to reuse (elements of mainstream media) to produce a subversive message.
Example Sentences
- "[…] to détourn clothing, with all its strong emotional connotations."
- "[…] to détourn one popular style of the day — novels full of adventurous youth engaging in promiscuous sex — this second novel should détourn another : the style known as nouveau roman (“new novel”)."
- "[…] to détourn and subvert mainstream game structures and culture, whereby détournement comes to be understood as "an overturning of the established order; an unforeseen activity within the institution, utilizing its tools[…]""
- "Viénet wanted critique to détourn new forms, including comics, chick lit, cinema, pirate radio, porn. […] the low theorist should know not only how to détourn some Hegel but also some code, […] As Lefebvre shows, many of the tactics that worked, if only for a time, were themselves détournements of romantic game plans. Here are some techniques for discovering the way into the total semantic field that they détourned, alone or in combination: alcohol (Debord), opium (Trocchi), psychosis (Chtcheglov), mania (Spur), synaesthesia (de Jong), fatigue (the dérive), obsession (Constant), love (Bernstein), revolution (May '68), solitude (late Debord)."