{
  "id": "reinventing-yourself.relocation",
  "term": "reinventing yourself",
  "sense": "relocation",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 15,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "A thing using its own reach to move the walls of its own window, and moving its self-model with them, so the self persists across the move.",
  "folk_gloss": "deliberately changing your career, image or way of life to become a different kind of person",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "agency.capacity",
      "reach.action",
      "self-model.reflexive",
      "use.application",
      "motion.movement",
      "wall.range-end",
      "window.range",
      "self.personal",
      "persist.continue",
      "across.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "Agency is turned on the walls that define the self rather than on a task inside them; because the self-model is moved on purpose along with the walls, the model never falls out of its window, and continuity survives a relocation that drift alone would have read as an ending.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "a self that is both the mover and the moved",
      "continuity kept by moving the model, not by holding it still",
      "a new window entered without crossing out of the self"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "David Bowie repeatedly remade his public persona, from Ziggy Stardust in 1972 to the Thin White Duke in 1976, while continuing to record as the same artist.",
      "domain": "music"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "identity-crisis.anchor",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "in an identity crisis the model drifts out of its window unchosen; reinvention moves model and walls together, on purpose"
    },
    {
      "id": "identity.self",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "identity holds the self-model still while parameters drift; reinvention moves the self-model deliberately"
    },
    {
      "id": "agency.capacity",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "agency aimed at the walls that say who the thing is"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "reinvent oneself",
    "reinvent yourself",
    "reinvented herself",
    "reinvented himself",
    "reinvented themselves",
    "reinvented yourself",
    "reinventing herself",
    "reinventing himself",
    "reinventing oneself",
    "reinventing yourself",
    "self reinvention"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-28",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reinventing-yourself.relocation"
}