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rebound effect

the 'Jevons Paradox' (often known nowadays as the 'rebound effect') has been observed again and again with every subsequent major technology

—p.111 Ever greater impact, ever less benefit: high-tech capital's mysterious lack of growth (111) by Bob Hughes
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multifarious

the multifarious forms of structural and physical violence that come with inequality

—p.82 What inequality does to people (73) by Bob Hughes
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belie

The notion that computers demonstrate capitalism's creativity is finally belied by the computer's history.

—p.37 Technofatalism and the future--is a world without Foxconn even possible? (15) by Bob Hughes
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epigone

The celebrated philosophical essays (The Myth of Sisyphus, The Rebel) are the work of an extraordinarily talented and literate epigone.

—p.54 Camus' Notebooks (52) by Susan Sontag
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ebullience

When self-parody lacks ebullience but instead reveals (even sporadically) a contempt for one's themes and one's materials

—p.282 Notes on "Camp" (275) by Susan Sontag
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