actionism

  1. Proper noun.  Viennese Actionism, a school of art which started in Vienna, Austria.
  2. Proper noun.  a term used by Theodor W. Adorno to refer to 1960s Radicals.
  3. Noun.  An excessive emphasis on action, activity, or change in lieu of continuity, stability, and permanence.

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