paranoiac-critical

English

Adjective

paranoiac-critical (not comparable)

1. (art) Of or relating to the Dalian surrealist technique of inducing a paranoid state in one's own mind in order to deconstruct the psychological concept of identity, such that subjectivity becomes the primary aspect of the artwork.
   • 2013, Drew Daniel, The Melancholy Assemblage, page 140:

     [T]heir motions tend to convey a kind of implicit critique of the social as surface, as empty speech, and commence a paranoiac-critical stance toward society which is refigured into a kind of dumb show through such a differential "depth of field" […] .