misjuncture

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ juncture

Noun

misjuncture (plural misjunctures)

A poorly articulated connection, a joining of things that functions poorly.
- 2003 Rena Lederman, "Review of Steel to Stone: A Chronicle of Colonialism in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea by Jeffrey CLARK; Chris Ballard; Michael Nihill," The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 112(1): 78-80.
  The practical understandings implied in these accounts constitute what Clark (following Sahlins up to a point) calls a structure of "misjuncture" (p.70).
- 2012, Ranjan Ghosh, "Reading and Experiencing a Play Transculturally," Comparative Drama 46(3): 259-281.
  This "unpeace," at once the site of conjuncture and misjuncture, vitalizes our reading and viewing.
- 2015, Anna Kornbluh, "The Realist Blueprint," The Henry James Review 36(3): 199-211.
  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
- 2019, David Tomas, Transcultural Space And Transcultural Beings, Routledge, 2019.
  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).

Related terms

disjuncture

单词	misjuncture
释义	misjuncture English Etymology mis- +‎ juncture Noun misjuncture (plural misjunctures) A poorly articulated connection, a joining of things that functions poorly. 2003 Rena Lederman, "Review of Steel to Stone: A Chronicle of Colonialism in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea by Jeffrey CLARK; Chris Ballard; Michael Nihill," The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 112(1): 78-80. The practical understandings implied in these accounts constitute what Clark (following Sahlins up to a point) calls a structure of "misjuncture" (p.70). 2012, Ranjan Ghosh, "Reading and Experiencing a Play Transculturally," Comparative Drama 46(3): 259-281. This "unpeace," at once the site of conjuncture and misjuncture, vitalizes our reading and viewing. 2015, Anna Kornbluh, "The Realist Blueprint," The Henry James Review 36(3): 199-211. 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 2019, David Tomas, Transcultural Space And Transcultural Beings, Routledge, 2019. 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). Related terms disjuncture
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