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hypostatisation
Aesthetics and Politics

Benjamin, following Brecht, tended to hypostasize techniques in abstraction from relations of production

—p.107 Presentation III (100) by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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periphrasis

adept practitioners of the diplomatic art of euphemism and periphrasis, that knowingly does not call things by their name

—p.106 Presentation III (100) by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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thaumaturgy

credulous believer in the thaumaturgical virtue of 'calling things by their names'

—p.106 Presentation III (100) by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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peripety

specific contents of Baudelaire's poetry were directly reduced to economic peripeteia of the time

—p.104 Presentation III (100) by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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oneiric

oneiric version of commodity fetishism

—p.104 Presentation III (100) by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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