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noumenal

we have a noumenal and trascendental side, a side which escapes relationality

—p.68 A World without Substances or Essences (47) by Richard M. Rorty
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invidious

to put the point less invidiously

—p.60 A World without Substances or Essences (47) by Richard M. Rorty
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hypostatisation

the distinction between things related and relations is just an alternative way of making the distinction between what we are talking about and what we say about it. The latter distinction is, as Whitehead said, just a hypostatization of the relation between linguistic subject and linguistic predicate

—p.56 A World without Substances or Essences (47) by Richard M. Rorty
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Pigouvian tax

The neoclassical logic behind carbon pricing seeks to make companies factor the cost of pollution into their budgets. It's what's known as a Pigouvian Tax, and whether it actually succeeds in curbing emissions is secondary to whether it breeds efficiency.

—p.111 The Eco-Right’s One Simple Trick (111) by Kate Aronoff
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metabolic rift

Karl Marx, in an expression later popularized by sociologist John Bellamy Foster, called this disjuncture in the ecosystem capitalism's "metabolic rift."

on human feces being stuck in cities whereas previously they were used to fertilise the soil in the countryside (in Victorian England)

—p.77 By Any Means Necessary (73) by Peter Frase
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