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vitiate

These factors had a vitiating effect on the BDLB, which eventually saw a slow dismantling of the protective schemes for workers.

why do i always think this word means the opposite.

—p.133 Decoding the Transition in the Ports of Mumbai (129) by Johnson Abhishek Minz
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hermeneutic

that’s very different from reading Freud or Durkheim or whomever to work out the categories with which they’re trying to explain our world. It’s a different exercise, and a different hermeneutic.

Critical Attempts by Moishe Postone
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liminal

there is also another side to liminality: the sense of power and possibility that comes with the release from custom and the loosening of traditional ties

—p.32 Myth and Cyberspace (17) by Vincent Mosco
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liminal

We live in a liminal state that breeds uncertainty and therefore numerous myths that offer certain remedies or just a road ahead

—p.32 Myth and Cyberspace (17) by Vincent Mosco
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interstice

he adopts a gradualist “metamorphosis” framework and places considerable weight on the eclectic development of “interstitial alternatives” that grow in the cracks of capitalism — “real utopias” that can eventually spread to capitalism’s core

on Erik Olin Wright

Chasing Utopias by Sam Gindin
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