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irruption
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irruption [i′rəp·shən]
(geology)


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In every socio-historical manifestation, this "ensemblistic-identitarian" logic is thus a mechanism of uniformizing significations (Castoriadis 340-44, 359); nevertheless, we cannot speak of ideology in it as long as the social imaginary remains freely open for irruptions of the magma of significations.
This mode of historiography, premised on irruptions and fragments, reorients vision and possibility, engendering a new, unbounded logic of possibility and agency--the promise that we "can do something" instead of simply dreaming.
A number of bird species, particularly those occurring in or near the Arctic, undergo irruptions, which are sudden migrations caused by insufficient food for the bird populations, Some times these irruptions will take the birds hundreds of miles outside their normal range, and new areas may be colonized.
 
 
 
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