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apogee
Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts

the free market represents the apogee of the Enlightenment

—p.92 Money as a medium of vengeance: Colonial accumulation and proletarian practices (85) by Max Haiven
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paeans

a bullyboy paean to "the West" as the seat of progress in an otherwise dark world.

—p.92 Money as a medium of vengeance: Colonial accumulation and proletarian practices (85) by Max Haiven
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synecdoche

The coin here might be read as a material allegory, or in some sense a synecdoche (a small part which represents the whole) of capital itself.

—p.76 Interlude: Ahab’s coin, or Moby Dick’s currencies? (75) by Max Haiven
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heterotopic

Michel Foucault, for one, identified the ship as the heterotopia par excellence: the space that is both within and outside the social order

—p.77 Interlude: Ahab’s coin, or Moby Dick’s currencies? (75) by Max Haiven
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synecdoche

The coin here might be read as a material allegory, or in some sense a synecdoche (a small part which represents the whole) of capital itself.

—p.76 Interlude: Ahab’s coin, or Moby Dick’s currencies? (75) by Max Haiven
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