Definition of "agonistics" [ag•o•nis•tics]

• The range of activities associated with aggressive encounters between members of the same species, including threat, attack, appeasement, or retreat. (noun)

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• "Attention to what Jean-Luc Nancy called the "excription" of meaning, the outside of thought, does not necessarily temper the paranoid bent of critical agonistics (105)."