{
  "id": "outrage-of-the-week.serial",
  "term": "outrage of the week",
  "sense": "serial",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 19,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "A grievance a collective self keeps only until the next grievance comes, so none is kept for the time its repair would take.",
  "folk_gloss": "a controversy that briefly dominates attention before the next one replaces it",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "grievance.held",
      "collective-self.shared",
      "keep.maintenance",
      "time.dimension",
      "next.temporal",
      "come.arrive",
      "none.quantity",
      "repair.restore",
      "take.acquisition"
    ],
    "interaction": "Grievance needs holding to press for repair; a stream of new reports gives each one too short a window, so the self keeps reporting and never arrives at repair.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "grievance without memory",
      "attention as the wall that ends each report"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Media critics use 'outrage of the week' for controversies that dominate coverage for a few days and are then displaced by the next.",
      "domain": "media"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "sense-of-grievance.collective",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "a sense of grievance is kept across generations; the outrage of the week is replaced in days"
    },
    {
      "id": "voter-fatigue.worn",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "both are wear from repetition, of keeping and of acting"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "outrage cycle",
    "outrage of the day",
    "outrage of the week"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-outrage-of-the-week.serial"
}