replace vs re-place 1. Does "to be re-place" mean "to be re-defined" and "to be put again in its place" in contrast with "to be replaced" that mean "to be substituted by something else"? 2. Does "switching station" mean "center of multifacetedness"? Context: However, as I have suggested elsewhere,8 and as Pearson’s and Shanks’s ‘congregation of strangers’ may already have betrayed, the body has not been replaced at all but re-placed, wandering en masse into the space of the city (and not for the first time, of course), performing in situ, a relational body or ‘switching station’ that acts within and is acted upon by its urban surroundings.