0 the act of trying to destroy or damage an established system or government:
He was found guilty of subversion and imprisoned.
1 an attempt to change or weaken a government or to remove it from power by working secretly within it
Is the performative inscription an act of definition, of control or of subversion of a discursive norm?
Something that is already constituted - in the mind, on the land - and that is open to negotiation, manipulation and subversion.
There is, one should note, less scope for mild or hidden subversion of the codes of social ballroom dancing.
This is because an efficient ideological mechanism requires two contradictory levels: (i) the official message, and (ii) the sanctioned fantasy of its subversion.
The thing to be contradicted has to be strong, so that it lends its weight to the subversion of it.
He is often presented as the great debunker of metanarratives, a pioneer of cultural subversion.
Like others of its kind, the note pretended that the whole scandal had been the product of an expertly planned act of political subversion.
Are terms like "subversion" and "anger" necessary components of feminism?
