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each of RCA's plant relocations

Each of RCA's plant relocations represents the corporation's response to workers' increasing sense of entitlement and control over investment in their community. Capital flight was a means of countering that control as the company sought out new reservoirs of controllable labor. The search for inex…

—p.4 Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor Introduction (1) by Jefferson R. Cowie
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an abstract capacity I associate with Poetry

[...] I want to note only that each time the houselights dimmed—these were the first movies I’d ever seen in a theater without the emotional buffer of my family—I felt that other worlds were possible, felt all my senses had been reset and sharpened, that some of them were melding with those of the …

—p.83 The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
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vanish or varnish

I remember speaking a word whose meaning I didn’t know but about which I had some inkling, some intuition, then inserting that word into a sentence, testing how it seemed to fit or chafe against the context and the syntax, rolling the word around, as it were, on my tongue. I remember my feeling tha…

—p.78 by Ben Lerner
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the universal is a fantasy

What we want to avoid at all costs is…an opposition between writing that accounts for race…and writing that is “universal.” If we continue to think of the “universal” as better-than, as the pinnacle, we will always discount writing that doesn’t look universal because it accounts for race or some ot…

—p.63 by Beth Loffreda, Claudia Rankine
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burn the actual off the virtual like fog topic/literary-theory

[...] I, too, dislike it: That “too” in the Moore is important—poet and reader of poetry are united in a suspicion of the song of any “earthly poet,” and that suspicion is the ground for an intuition of the ideal. The hatred of poetry is internal to the art, because it is the task of the poet and…

—p.38 by Ben Lerner