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parochial

he moved beyond the personalized, parochial focus on the leadership of the US Federal Reserve

—p.136 Mishandling the Crisis (135) by Adam Tooze
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saltwater economics

Eichengreen belongs to the last generation of so-called ‘saltwater’ macroeconomists trained by Yale, MIT and Harvard in the 1970s and early 80s.

—p.135 Mishandling the Crisis (135) by Adam Tooze
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Paris Commune

Space separates as much as it unites: the Paris Commune was not able to draw the essentially agricultural lands of Versailles into its revolutionary orbit.

—p.132 Aesthetics of Singularity (101) by Fredric Jameson
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Hegelian

they functioned as vanishing mediators—destructive operations which, by some Hegelian ruse of history, clear the terrain for new and unexpected developments

—p.131 Aesthetics of Singularity (101) by Fredric Jameson
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vicissitudes

How can culture and subjectivity not be transformed, when opened to the vicissitudes of this vaster landscape and population which is globalization itself?

—p.129 Aesthetics of Singularity (101) by Fredric Jameson
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