One question that arises is "decontextualization" of practices that emerge from a particular tradition or stance, long standing or otherwise. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
I had brought along the essay of an American critic, Stephen M. Fjellman, from his book Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and America, that proposes the word "decontextualization" for what goes on here. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Magic Kingdom] Reference
This constant decontextualization of issues functions to make his position seem more rational than it is. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference
Quote-mine's are concerned with changing the meaning of a passage through selective editing or decontextualization. From Wordnik.com. [Blast From the Past] Reference
I first typed, in a significant error, text being authored by text ... when, really, there's always someone behind any decontextualization. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
Her main points include personal media increasing media consumption, the dangers of device fetishization, and problematic decontextualization. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » An iPod and Tivo critique] Reference
Second, the decontextualization argument has been used so many times with regards to music that is has become utterly banal and totally useless. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » An iPod and Tivo critique] Reference
I still maintain that any utility derived from the technique is overwhelemd by the widespread and willful overuse of reductionistic decontextualization. From Wordnik.com. [A Modest Declaration - Anil Dash] Reference
In a remarkable stroke of decontextualization, our favorite developers in Dubai have concocted the largest indoor snow park in the Mall of the Emirates, itself one of the largest malls in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-10-01] Reference
Anyone who appreciated the utter absurdity of the use of “Another Brick in the Wall” as a single rather than as a part of the whole album knows that decontextualization occurs only when we let it. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » An iPod and Tivo critique] Reference
Recontextualization through decontextualization … and once again, the text as réseaux …. From Wordnik.com. [Never Neutral] Reference
Palestine Chronicle, Ramzy Baroud's latest book My Father was a Freedom Fighter is an antidote to the US, European and Israeli media's decontextualization and dehumanization of Palestinians. From Wordnik.com. [Electronic Intifada : Palestine] Reference
For their varying permutations of laziness, decontextualization, overstretching, vagueness, self-importance and all-around bad writing, we bestow the accompanying trophy, colloquially known around the Defamer office as the "Listy.". From Wordnik.com. [The Velvet Hot Tub | Freshest Stories] Reference
However, HRW manages to bury this important point in more decontextualization when it argues that the so-called packing of the Supreme Court led to some sort of "altered" composition of the entire judiciary because the new majority on the court used its power to presumably pack all of the other courts (p. 49). From Wordnik.com. [Venezuela Analysis] Reference
Refusal to surrender: "My Father was a Freedom Fighter" reviewed Palestinian-American author, journalist and editor of the Palestine Chronicle, Ramzy Baroud's latest book My Father was a Freedom Fighter is an antidote to the US, European and Israeli media's decontextualization and dehumanization of Palestinians. From Wordnik.com. [Marisacat] Reference
Nonetheless, in order to entirely conflate DiNovo's remarks and position on the IAW resolution with that of Peter Shurman's requires nothing less than malicious and wilful misreading (something I used to call "pullin 'a Cherniak", but now for nuance sake in Leftists circles I call it "pullin 'a Unionist"), as well as a flagrant decontextualization of the two speakers. From Wordnik.com. [Progressive Bloggers] Reference
Tenth, you’ll be surprised to hear that a GOP memo on the IG report is a laughable tissue of misrepresentation and decontextualization. From Wordnik.com. [This Is A Low: Collected Lowlights Of The 2004 CIA IG Report Into Torture | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
What the Internet does best is to subvert the packaging of news that television has led to — and Froomkin, by compiling the day’s news — from all sources online — with links to the stories themselves, subverts that decontextualization. From Wordnik.com. [Splitting newsrooms and hairs « BuzzMachine] Reference
I don’t know the text or context of the Webb remark, but I don’t believe anything I said condemned expressing sympathy with Confederate soldiers–I was condemning the deliberate decontextualization of the war by omitting to even mention slavery, which has the effect of whitewashing Confederate history. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Virginia “Confederate History Month” Proclamation] Reference
I don’t know the text or context of the Webb remark, but I don’t believe anything I said condemned expressing sympathy with Confederate soldiers – I was condemning the deliberate decontextualization of the war by omitting to even mention slavery, which has the effect of whitewashing Confederate history. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Virginia “Confederate History Month” Proclamation] Reference
Let’s see, deliberate misreading, decontextualization, and feigned ignorance. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Ungovernable America] Reference
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