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Interpassivity vs Interpassive - What's the difference?

interpassivity | interpassive |

As a noun interpassivity

is a state of passivity, particularly cognitive or emotional passivity, enabled or facilitated by the appearance or potential of interactivity.

As an adjective interpassive is

having the quality of interpassivity.

interpassivity

English

Noun

(-)
  • A state of passivity, particularly cognitive or emotional passivity, enabled or facilitated by the appearance or potential of interactivity
  • * Juha Suoranta and Tere Vadén (2010). Wikiworld , Pluto Press, p. 133
    • ...the true motivation for readymade laughter in TV comedies is interpassivity : I don't have to engage in recognising, sympathising with and interpreting the drama.

    References

    * Slavoj Žižek (1998). " Cyberspace, or, How to Traverse the Fantasy in the Age of the Retreat of the Big Other", Public Culture , volume 10 issue 3, p. 483 *: ...interpassivity , the exact obverse of "interactivity," which refers to the sense of being active through another subject who does the job for one...

    interpassive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the quality of interpassivity.
  • * 2003 , Robert Pfaller, " Little Gestures of Disappearance: Interpassivity and the Theory of Ritual", European Journal of Psychoanalysis , number 16, Winter-Spring 2003:
    • Interpassive' people are those who want to delegate their pleasures or their consumptions. And interpassive media are all the agents—machines, people, animals etc.—to whom ' interpassive people can delegate their pleasures.