Wiktionary
vb. To set in a new context.
Usage examples of "recontextualize".
Ultimately both the positive effects and ironic countereffects of television are, like the polarities of the supermarket, recontextualized when DeLillo shifts attention from the content of television to the medium itself.
She remembers this now from previous visits, and also the way certain labels are mysteriously recontextualized here: Whole seas of Burberry plaid have no effect on her, nor Mont Blanc nor even Gucci.
British military symbol re-purposed by postwar style-warriors, and recontextualized again, here, via cross-cultural echo.
Recontextualized by the accusations which the anonymous judge had brought against Silas Arnett, it implied that Conrad Helier had thought of the transformer plagues as a good thing: an opportunity rather than a curse.
In the face of worldwide desperation, power struggles of all kinds were recontextualized, many rendered phantasmagorical.
No luck there— only the gray disk of the shaded evening star, the signet of people who had taken on a task that recontextualized humanity as a kind of god bacteria, chewing away at worlds, dying to prepare the ground for later life—dwarfed most grandiosely in the cosmic scheme of things, in an almost Calvinistic masochist-heroism—a parodic travesty of the Mars project—and yet just as magnificent.
No luck there only the gray disk of the shaded evening star, the signet of people who had taken on a task that recontextualized humanity as a kind of god bacteria, chewing away at worlds, dying to prepare the ground for later life-dwarfed most grandiosely in the cosmic scheme of things, in an almost Calvinistic masochist-heroism-a parodic travesty of the Mars project-and yet just as magnificent.
No luck there—only the gray disk of the shaded evening star, the signet of people who had taken on a task that recontextualized humanity as a kind of god bacteria, chewing away at worlds, dying to prepare the ground for later life—dwarfed most grandiosely in the cosmic scheme of things, in an almost Calvinistic masochist-heroism—a parodic travesty of the Mars project—and yet just as magnificent.