disoccupation

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Lack of occupation

   Lack of occupation; The state of having nothing to occupy one's time; idleness.

   • Nay it is well if this diſoccupation of the intellect do not lead from ſloth to improper indulgences.
2. 2

   Synonym of unemployment.

3. 3

   The removal of the occupants of a place.

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   1. 4

      The process of ending a military occupation.

      • He was trying to have laborers organized to help out the other people in the country, newspaper men and other organizations that were working for the disoccupation of the Republic by the forces of the United States .
   2. 5

      The use of art to convert a space to one that reveals "emptiness", as opposed to one that…

      The use of art to convert a space to one that reveals "emptiness", as opposed to one that is merely empty; the revelation of negative space by sculpture.

      • I posit the aethetic nature of the Statue as a purely spatial organism, to be exact, the active disoccupation of the Statue through the fusion of lightweight or unimposing formal elements.
      • In cultural terms this was reflected in ETA's appreciation of Baque sculptor Jorge Oteiza's artistic theory of the disoccupation of space.
      • the mask is what in "Experimental Proposition" is identified as the funerary stele, the disoccupation of space that sets the man in relation to the beyond.

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