reconfigurationism

English

Etymology

reconfiguration +‎ -ism

Noun

reconfigurationism (countable and uncountable, plural reconfigurationisms)

1. An emphasis on reconfiguring what already exists rather than create something entirely new.
   • 1982, Italy; Documents and Notes - Volume 31, page 43:

     First aim to be achieved is, in the first place, a modular control system providing high reliability, availability and reconfigurationism.

   • 2017, John Cayley, “Reconfiguration: Symbolic image and language Art”, in Humanities, volume 6, number 1:

     ‘Reconfiguration’ and ‘reconfigurationism’ distinguishes itself from theories of a ‘New Aesthetic’ and pretends a more insightful and critically generative analysis.

   • 2019, Jiří Šubrt, Individualism, Holism and the Central Dilemma of Sociological Theory:

     Associating this with a certain reconfiguration of long accepted sociological ideas and conceptions, we could also speak of 'critical reconfigurationism'.