disunify

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disunify - break up or separate; "The country is disunifying"; "Yugoslavia broke apart after 1989"

break up, part, split, split up, separate, break - discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up"

merge, unify, unite - become one; "Germany unified officially in 1990"; "the cells merge"

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On the other hand there is a privileging of the centrifugal in postmodern theory which tends to fragment, disunify and rob the subject of any meaningful ideological framework from which to render the self intelligible hence Barthes 'death of the author' or Foucault's 'the death of man'(Kearney 1998:265, 271;de Peuter 1998:41).

Bakhtinian thought and the defence of narrative: overcoming universalism and relativism

Rhythm, too, is used to both blend and separate the parts, to unify and disunify the film.

Brakhage's contradictions

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