architexture

English

Etymology 1

archi- +‎ texture

Noun

architexture (countable and uncountable, plural architextures)

1. (film studies, literary criticism) A metatextual entity created through multiple texts or works; a category or semantic construct embodied by a class of artistic works.
   • 1995, Ruth Robbins, Julian Wolfreys, Victorian Identities, page 210:

     Dickens's architextures do not present us with a form – of a building, of the city – as a meaning, system or structure. Rather, we are presented with the textual event, the architextural event, as a means of exposing the limits of fixed meaning, and, by this, the limits of the utterable.

   • 2018, Giuliana Bruno, Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film, page 10:

     Moving through Richter's artwork, one is actually “transported” into that haptic “architexture” of recollection in which a filmic-architectural bond is pictured, figured as a map.

   • 2021, Susan Larson, Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film:

     Understood in this way, cinema becomes an inhabitable space, a mode of dwelling, and a kind of 'living architexture', in the words of Giuliana Bruno.

   • 2022, Olivier J. Tchouaffe, African Cinema, Neoliberal Narratives and the Right of Necessity, page 37:

     Indeed, these narratives are the product of not mythological thinking but causal thinking, conceived as archives of social events as explanatory mechanisms also known as architextures. The notion of architexture refers to African cinema as a site of power and resistance, particularly against logics imposed by an authoritarian state, and the knowledge that productive globalization involves an equal relationship and protection under agreed practices and laws.

Etymology 2

Noun

architexture (countable and uncountable, plural architextures)

1. Eggcorn of architecture.