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inanimate
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inanimate [in′an·ə·mət]
(medicine)
Lacking consciousness or life.
(science and technology)
A lifeless object.


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animation always has something of the inanimate about it, that it is a certain inanimateness that both allows and disallows animation.
In her fashion photography, Van Lamsweerde directs her models back and forth between Cosmo-cover and Helmut Newton pastiches and the neutered inanimateness of low-glamour clothing catalogues.
What this means is that animation always has something of the inanimate about it, that it is a certain inanimateness that both allows and disallows animation; but this inanimateness could not be absolutely inanimate.
 
 
 
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