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strategic essentialism

[...] The concept of strategic essentialism derives from this critique. It agrees that there are no essences in the social world. However, it draws attention to the fact that in everyday life and social struggles individuals frequently refer to such essences, to the extent that they seem difficult …

—p.203 Left Hemisphere: Mapping Contemporary Theory Post-Femininities (189) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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a profoundly absurd system

One of the contributions made by The New Spirit of Capitalism is that it put the word ‘capitalism’ back into circulation in France. The term had almost completely vanished from the public sphere during the neo-liberal decades of the 1980s and 90s, the naturalization of the system (‘there is no al…

—p.163 Capitalisms Old and New (139) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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since the Vietnam War

According to Arrighi, we are currently witnessing the decline of the systemic cycle of accumulation dominated by the United States. The defeat suffered by the latter during the Vietnam War was the ‘signal crisis’ of this decline, the war in Iraq is its ‘terminal crisis’. Wars – combined with growin…

—p.154 Capitalisms Old and New (139) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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always conditional on power relations

[...] Technology is not ‘progressive’ in itself; its positive or negative effects are always conditional on power relations. In any event, it is certain that it will not abolish capitalist exploitation solely through its own development, for labour is not simply an occupation but, in the last insta…

—p.142 Capitalisms Old and New (139) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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the New Left in China

[...] At least three elements unite the advocates of the New Left. First of all, they subject the neo-liberalism and authoritarianism of the Chinese state to concerted criticism. In other words, they believe that these are two aspects of the same phenomenon. Chinese liberals, who have been very pow…

—p.130 The Nation-State: Persistence or Transcendence? (108) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan