recuperation

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin recuperātiō; synchronically analyzable as recuperate + -ion.

noun

  1. Gradual restoration to health.
  2. Instance of getting something back.
  3. (politics, sociology) Process by which radical or subversive ideas are co-opted by mainstream society.
    Coordinate term: cooptation
    [Raoul Vaneigem] I have nothing in common with the spectacular recuperation of a project that, in my case, has remained revolutionary throughout. 2009 May, Hans Ulrich Obrist, “In Conversation with Raoul Vaneigem”, in e-flux, archived from the original on 2009-09-07

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