prefigurative

Like all the cottagers in Blackmoor Vale, Tess was steeped in fancies and prefigurative superstitions; she thought this an ill omen--the first she had noticed that day.

Groups strove to realize the ideal of cooperation and creativity entailed by the ideal of prefigurative social relations, anticipating in the present the victory over alienation that would characterize a society of human emancipation, an ideal that sometimes came close to being realized.

Homi Bhabha, for example, avers that Goethe's notion of the cultural life of the nation and the individual as lived unconsciously carries the implications that "world literature could be an emergent, prefigurative category that is concerned with a form of cultural dissensus and alterity," and that the "study of world literature might be the study of the way in which cultures recognize themselves through their projections of 'otherness'" (The Location of Culture 12).

(22) White's imaginative investigation into the way that historians deploy metaphors in their work and the explanatory and prefigurative functions those metaphors serve is likely the most lasting and pervasive component of his analysis and it is one that he would take up and modify in later works.

What differentiates an initiative destined to be an event from an initiative that reflects a prefigurative, counterhegemonic pattern?

Through our presentation of the performance, we lay out some strategies for a prefigurative politics beyond liberal forms of inclusion and exclusion, including perhaps, alternative narratives of Filipinos beyond self-exploiting model minorities.

In the first chapter, Neve Wald and Doug Hill address the prefigurative role of horizontal organisation, a typical feature of the anarchist tradition, by analysing the cases of rural grassroots groups in Argentina, often inspired by local cultures and indigenous traditions.

(26) They thus attempt what Wini Breines called a "prefigurative politics." (27) This term has come to suggest two related things.

Hyper-schooling of infancy in a prefigurative culture

We analyze two exemplars or 'case studies' from our own work, detailing how these prefigurative political spaces generate a new language of possibility, beyond the enclosure of the present moment.

In the process the meaning of politics has become pluralized, so that, depending on context, it includes deliberative processes and struggles for power through the state, prefigurative practices that construct alternatives, and politics of the quotidian.

Co-operatives, as a form of prefigurative politics, could easily be characterised as reformist, as settling for the small-scale and the personal, and for local and immediate improvements, however limited they might be.