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supererogation

contradictions and superpluses, the unconscious, the unsayable. They are not supererogatory to reality: to the contrary. Nor ca they be so to those who strive to change it.

—p.117 Silence in Debris: Towards an Apophatic Marxism (115) by China Miéville
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lachrymose

The breakdown of old algorithms occasions epistemological crisis; hence liberalism's panicked lachrymosity, the outrage of denied entitlement, conspiracism and self-righteousness.

hahaha i love his writing

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

It takes considerable temerity to sit atop a Bantustan with immense military might, suffocating Gaza, sunbathing in Tel Aviv, living in the stolen homes of refugees, and then to play the victim

—p.103 Jewphobia (83) by Barnaby Raine
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ruction

The existence of Jewophobia is not a sufficient condition for liberal and conservative panic about it, but the same ructions might just explain both today.

—p.103 Jewphobia (83) by Barnaby Raine
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weltanschauung

Jewish communal bodies wrote to Corbyn and blamed his sloppiness on a whole Weltanschauung of the 'far left', seeing not just anti-Zionism but all class politics as tinged with an innate tendency towards anti-Semitism

—p.100 Jewphobia (83) by Barnaby Raine
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