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vertiginous

This vertiginous shift coincides with a condition of disorientation, of groundlessness.

—p.138 The Material Image (136) by Tony Wood
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panoptic

in the panoptic present of Google Earth and the like

—p.138 The Material Image (136) by Tony Wood
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dialectic

Her modus operandi often involves taking a deadpan, seemingly literal-minded stance on a given concept or question in order to shed light on its contradictions, before then making an unexpected dialectical reversal.

—p.137 The Material Image (136) by Tony Wood
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lapidary

Her writing style is at once free-ranging and lapidary

—p.137 The Material Image (136) by Tony Wood
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reifying

Wage-earners, businesses and states are facing the same process of reification which, being humanly untenable, will necessarily give rise to new juridical responses

—p.112 The Social State (99) by Alain Supiot
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