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hermetic

The Viguerie Company's marketing genius was that as it continued metastasizing, it remained, in financial terms, a hermetic positive feedback loop.

—p.30 The Long Con: Mail-Order Conservatism (23) by Rick Perlstein
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peroration

The history of that movement echoes with the sonorous names of long-dead Austrian economists, of indefatigable door-knocking cadres, of soaring perorations on a nation finally poised to realize its rendezvous with destiny.

(on American conservatism)

—p.29 The Long Con: Mail-Order Conservatism (23) by Rick Perlstein
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aporia

the need described above is intensified by an aporia that occurs whenever someone tries to explain the most blatant contradiction that characterises austerity-and-crisis Greece

—p.157 Back to Piraeus: Precarity for All! (145) by Carolin Philipp, Dimitris Parsanoglou
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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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