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surfeit

a surfeit of luxury homes while everyone else crams themselves into shared flats and ever-more constrained lives

—p.223 A Place to Call Home (221) missing author
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housing as a means to accumulate capital

There is so much to say about a system that increasingly treats housing as a means to accumulate capital, never as a home. A creeping worldview that only understands the value of housing as a commodity, as something to be bought and sold, speculated in, land banked. To them, where you live is only …

—p.222 A Place to Call Home (221) missing author
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sarcasm is both this-worldly and other-worldly

However irresistible, it is of course resisted. If the form of prophesy is invoked, it is also to tacitly admit that we cannot be prophets. There is no Word of God to which we, mere flesh, could or should be subjected. And so we must analyse our situation with ruthless scorn, not sentimental illusi…

—p.218 Not: Marxism as 'Organised Sarcasm' (209) by Richard Seymour
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supererogation

the totally supererogatory outbursts of Capital

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—p.218 Not: Marxism as 'Organised Sarcasm' (209) by Richard Seymour
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