resistentialism
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resistentialism
the apparently perverse or spiteful behavior of inanimate objects.
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They display positive resistentialism. Like when the toast always falls butter side down.
In a Sunday New York Times Magazine article, "Thingness of Things," Paul E Jennings wrote of the latest fashion in French thought, "Resistentialism," currently making a splash in the cafe scene.
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