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meaning of "turning"

Hi. All three following contexts are from the same book. The word "turning" is inside quotation marks in all of them. I think it means differently in any of the contexts. Am I right?

#1 Artistic practice as Bourriaud would advocate it, on the other hand, corresponds to a ‘relational world’: ‘it is always a relationship with the other, at the same time as it represents a relationship with the world’. In the final analysis Bourriaud is prepared to concede situationism’s influence on relational aesthetics, not least in the latter’s decisive ‘turning’ of the former – ‘[t]he work that forms a “relational world”, and a social interstice, updates situationism and reconciles it, as far as it is possible, with the art world’.

# 2 Wentworth is just telling us about the building’s former life as the infamous mental institution Bedlam, known in the nineteenth century for its exploitative staging for visitors of ‘real-life scenes of madness’, and immortalised subsequently, of course, as a term describing andemonium or chaos. The process of change in both the function of this building (from ‘mad house’ to museum) and its former name – originally Bethlehem, then shortened to Bethlem, before settling on Bedlam – epitomises, of course, precisely the kind of‘turning’ action – in this case historical – whose resonance so intrigues Wentworth.

# 3 Of course, many traceurs would consider it a philosophy and (sub)urban way of life. In fact, though its spelling differs slightly – a ‘c’ rather than a ‘k’ – parcours is the term used to mean an obstacle course or route. Furthermore, it is a word de Certeau employs in drawing his celebrated analogy in The Practice of Everyday Life between the practices of writing and urban walking: ‘the act of “turning” phrases finds an equivalent in an act of composing a path (tourner un parcours)'.
  

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The verb "turn" has many different senses. In these three sentences it is apparently used in three of its senses. The quotation marks are apparently to indicate that the usage, in this art criticism context, does not precisely fit the dictionary definition.

  • The verb "turn" has many different senses.
  • In these three sentences it is apparently used in three of its senses.
  • The quotation marks are apparently to indicate that the usage, in this art criticism context, does not precisely fit the dictionary definition.
  • 1.
  • Here, "turning" seems to mean "changing," but not exactly, since this is in an art criticism context that is difficult to put into words.
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The verb "turn" has many different senses. In these three sentences it is apparently used in three of its senses. The quotation marks are apparently to indicate that the usage, in this art criticism context, does not precisely fit the dictionary definition.

1. Here, "turning" seems to mean "changing," but not exactly, since this is in an art criticism context that is difficult to put i

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