Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context of a problem or question English) To give too many constraints, so that no solution is available. 2 To determine in such a way that any of the determinant's components would be sufficient on its own to produce the consequence.
Usage examples of "overdetermine".
The birth of the modern trade union and the construction of the party as vanguard both date from this period of worker struggles and effectively overdetermine it.
Without underestimating these real and important lines of continuity, however, we think it is important to note that what used to be conflict or competition among several imperialist powers has in important respects been replaced by the idea of a single power that overdetermines them all, structures them in a unitary way, and treats them under one common notion of right that is decidedly postcolonial and postimperialist.
Through its contemporary transformation of supranational law, the imperial process of constitution tends either directly or indirectly to penetrate and reconfigure the domestic law of the nation-states, and thus supranational law powerfully overdetermines domestic law.
Modern European sovereignty is capitalist sovereignty, a form of command that overdetermines the relationship between individuality and universality as a function of the development of capital.
Lolita and bad female sexuality, a reading that then overdetermines the book, that imposes itself upon its own text.
In short, the paradigm shift is defined, at least initially, by the recognition that only an established power, overdetermined with respect to and relatively autonomous from the sovereign nation-states, is capable of functioning as the center of the new world order, exercising over it an effective regulation and, when necessary, coercion.
Perhaps a bit on the reclusive side, a bit careful, a bit overdetermined to control their own environment.
Or, to be more specific, I was overdetermined and in no mood for her style transduction of affect.
She had wheeled over to Manny to illustrate some overdetermined point about motif lifts.
But I was leaning toward a conclusion that she had an overdetermined intellectual and professional arrogance that had been cemented by some monumental insecurity that she was struggling to tame as a lion tamer controls a big cat.
The bloody babe is so overdetermined as a symbol that it resists any careful reading.
What does it say in excess of the location of its elements on this grid and the subsequent revelation of vast and overdetermined absences?
This is particularly so in a setting as freighted and overdetermined as this one.
In short, the paradigm shift is defined, at least initially, by the recognition that only an established power, overdetermined with respect to and relatively autonomous from the sovereign nation-states, is capable of functioning as the center of the new world order, exercising over it an effective regulation and, when necessary, coercion.
Perhaps a bit on the reclusive side, a bit careful, a bit overdetermined to control their own environment.