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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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dialectic

Her modus operandi often involves taking a deadpan, seemingly literal-minded stance on a given concept or question in order to shed light on its contradictions, before then making an unexpected dialectical reversal.

—p.137 The Material Image (136) by Tony Wood
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lapidary

Her writing style is at once free-ranging and lapidary

—p.137 The Material Image (136) by Tony Wood
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reifying

Wage-earners, businesses and states are facing the same process of reification which, being humanly untenable, will necessarily give rise to new juridical responses

—p.112 The Social State (99) by Alain Supiot
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reifying

having reduced the perimeter of social justice to quantitative measures, compensating in time or money for a reification of labour that is judged necessary according to the principles of the social state

—p.110 The Social State (99) by Alain Supiot
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two phenomena associated with globalization

This new international context is the most obvious cause of the destabilization of the social state, even if it is not the only one. The term ‘globalization’, however, promotes a confusion between two types of phenomena that are combined in practice but different in kind. On the one hand, there are…

—p.109 The Social State (99) by Alain Supiot