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vatic

And it is afraid, too, of the vatic and exhortatory.

on Apophatic Marxism

—p.129 Silence in Debris: Towards an Apophatic Marxism (115) by China Miéville
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telos

According to this via negativa, God is ineffable, so far beyond quotidian language as to be incommunicable. All that can be said, in the negative way is what the telos of its concern is not

—p.121 Silence in Debris: Towards an Apophatic Marxism (115) by China Miéville
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apophatic

the discourse o f the limits of words, of what is not and cannot be said. Its name comes from the Greek term meaning 'negation' or 'denial'. It is called apophasis.

—p.120 Silence in Debris: Towards an Apophatic Marxism (115) by China Miéville
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cataphatic

Positive theology speaks claims about the divine - that God is Father, love, beauty, good. This, the via positivia, the positive way, is called cataphatic, from the Greek for 'affirmation'.

—p.120 Silence in Debris: Towards an Apophatic Marxism (115) by China Miéville
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aporia

Uncertainties, aporia, scepticisms and the shifting incompleteness to which they lead - the negative space of thought -should constitute collective politics alongside affirmations and suggestions.

—p.120 Silence in Debris: Towards an Apophatic Marxism (115) by China Miéville
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