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lobotomize
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lo·bot·o·mize  (l-bt-mz, l-)
tr.v. lo·bot·o·mized, lo·bot·o·miz·ing, lo·bot·o·miz·es
1. To perform a lobotomy on (a patient).
2. To deprive (a person) of energy or vitality.
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lobotomize
vt to lobotomize somebodyan jdm eine Lobotomie durchführen


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Film, for example (and Sontag was herself an occasional filmmaker) seemed not to pose for her the same issues as the still image, which in both her early and late writing raised the specter of a form of ethical neurasthenia, deadening empathetic capacities, inoculating its spectators to real violence, colonizing, if not lobotomizing, its consumers.
Engagement" is Koolhaas's central working concept; what he wants to engage with is the commercial world that he regards as politically and socially lobotomizing.
It's a lobotomizing view, which negates the need for movement or thought .
 
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