Decentered

The state's online infrastructure was simply ill-equipped to undermine this kind of decentered audience-generated citizen news production that anchored what is now known as the "Twitter Revolution." ❋ Adel Iskandar (2011)

'decentered' setup, and such reallocations are best suited for more mature companies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In comments published on the Holberg Prize website, she described her work as "decentered" and "pluralistic" history, "where what happens in a woman's workshop or a villager's hut or at ❋ Unknown (2010)

In these situations I suspect I have neither avoided a fallacy, nor decentered subjectivity. ❋ Unknown (2008)

You astutely problematize decentered-ness but you overlook that your ideology is always already overdetermined. ❋ EAGEAGEAG (2010)

It was the society that raised him that left him decentered and awash in the middle of an America he couldn't deal with; it wasn't money or politics or even beliefs that drove him to do what he did, but merely the feeling of being a "little man" in a world where, even as a "big man" he couldn't get any recognition. ❋ Nicolas Niarchos (2010)

The decentered immortality that Nietzsche attributes to the man of "superior culture" — who preserves in his own body fragments of a vanished past — closely resembles the immortality that Walter Pater, for instance, famously attributed to La Gioconda: ❋ Unknown (2008)

Yet formally self-conscious and deliberately ambiguous though it tended to be, “The Sopranos” was by no means so completely decentered in its “overall moral or thematic attitude” as all that. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So maybe “perspective” is an outmoded category to look for in Infinite Jest; maybe this sort of decentered narrative chaos is the best we can hope for. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There is no poststructuralist person--no completely decentered subject for whom all meaning is arbitrary, totally relative, and purely historically contingent, unconstrained by body and brain. ❋ William Harryman (2009)

Beginning in the sixteenth century, however, the dominionist, anthropocentric, speciesist, theocratic, and geocentric worldview of Western society suffered a series of powerful intellectual blows that decentered humans from their cosmological throne and self-assigned position of power and privilege. ❋ William Harryman (2009)

Of course the French felt decentered: they had just been crushed by Germany. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I expect to get better at it as time goes by, not to be so easily decentered by emotional ambushes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Having various people responding on their own personal blogs rather than in comments gets around all these problems †the conversation is decentered, not localized to anyone’s “turf,” and people are more likely to write lengthier, more thoughtful responses if they are producing it for the sake of their own blog instead of writing something that will be hidden away in some obscure corner of someone else’s comment sections. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Although it's edited by Valerie Steele, the author of the smart and stylish The Corset: A Cultural History (a hot seller and the university-press version of soft porn), I dreaded reading this compendium, written largely by scholars (in its dogged attempts at hipness academe has for more than a decade been plumbing the theoretical and sociological significance of such topics as "Elsa Schiaparelli and the decentered subject"). ❋ Unknown (2005)