The development of something beyond its obvious and practical scope(noun)
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Use "theorisation" in a sentence
"So, rather than indicating purely a failure in theorisation — a kind of bricolage of remnants"
"This claim is wholly justified, for this a substantial and innovative contribution to both our present understanding of collaborative film-making and to the emerging theorisation of media as practice (Couldry, Bird, Ardevol et al, etc)."
"Schelling and Schubert's theorisation of the psyche is in some sense compensatory — an attempt to formulate a new theory of man, or of individual essence or the 'ground' of the self, within the emerging framework of speculative psychology, as opposed to on more empirical or political terrain."