Salvage #5: Contractions [terms]

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(linguistics) the omission of a sound or syllable when speaking OR the act or an instance of omitting something

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'queer' was about emphasising rather than eliding difference

—p.20 Available Light (7) missing author

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'queer' was about emphasising rather than eliding difference

—p.20 Available Light (7) missing author

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the philosophical attempt to describe things in terms of their apparent intrinsic purpose, directive principle, or goal, irrespective of human use or opinion

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Ghost In The Shell reminds us that there is no technological teleology escape hatch out of gendered oppression

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—p.62 Making and Getting Made: Towards a Cyborg Transfeminism (61) missing author

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Ghost In The Shell reminds us that there is no technological teleology escape hatch out of gendered oppression

pretty

—p.62 Making and Getting Made: Towards a Cyborg Transfeminism (61) missing author

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(noun) material that is used to provide stability to a vehicle or structure; (verb) to steady or equip with or as if with ballast

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regimes figureheaded by the Clintons, Obama and Blair attempted to garner additional ideological ballast for violence, by assimilating sections of society that Thatcher and Reagan actively fought

—p.72 Making and Getting Made: Towards a Cyborg Transfeminism (61) missing author

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regimes figureheaded by the Clintons, Obama and Blair attempted to garner additional ideological ballast for violence, by assimilating sections of society that Thatcher and Reagan actively fought

—p.72 Making and Getting Made: Towards a Cyborg Transfeminism (61) missing author

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(noun) the inherent nature or essence of someone or something; a distinctive feature; a peculiarity

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He may be president, but he is not presidential. The liberal world is in mourning for this dispositional quiddity, presidentialness.

—p.81 ‘One thinge that ouerthroweth all that were graunted before’: On Being Presidential (81) by China Miéville

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He may be president, but he is not presidential. The liberal world is in mourning for this dispositional quiddity, presidentialness.

—p.81 ‘One thinge that ouerthroweth all that were graunted before’: On Being Presidential (81) by China Miéville

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the opposite or counterpart of a fact or truth; the side of a coin or medal bearing the head or principal design

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The implied obverse, an unbroken culture, would be a more civil form of class and imperial rule.

—p.82 ‘One thinge that ouerthroweth all that were graunted before’: On Being Presidential (81) by China Miéville

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The implied obverse, an unbroken culture, would be a more civil form of class and imperial rule.

—p.82 ‘One thinge that ouerthroweth all that were graunted before’: On Being Presidential (81) by China Miéville

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(adjective) given to tears or weeping; tearful / (adjective) tending to cause tears; mournful

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The culture industry’s hagiography (Barry, Southside with You) is accompanied by a torrent of schmaltzy and lachrymose words

—p.84 ‘One thinge that ouerthroweth all that were graunted before’: On Being Presidential (81) by China Miéville

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The culture industry’s hagiography (Barry, Southside with You) is accompanied by a torrent of schmaltzy and lachrymose words

—p.84 ‘One thinge that ouerthroweth all that were graunted before’: On Being Presidential (81) by China Miéville

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(noun) a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated (as “crown” in “lands belonging to the crown”)

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with the crisis of their project in a destablising world, liberals’ obsession with norms of appearance, trappings and proprieties of a collapsing system, may grow, in glum aspirational metonymy

—p.88 ‘One thinge that ouerthroweth all that were graunted before’: On Being Presidential (81) by China Miéville

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with the crisis of their project in a destablising world, liberals’ obsession with norms of appearance, trappings and proprieties of a collapsing system, may grow, in glum aspirational metonymy

—p.88 ‘One thinge that ouerthroweth all that were graunted before’: On Being Presidential (81) by China Miéville

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(noun) the language or speech pattern of one individual at a particular period of life

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Twenty-first-century Marxists must be nimble if we are to revive our own idiolect

—p.108 Salvaging the Dormant: On Language (95) missing author

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Twenty-first-century Marxists must be nimble if we are to revive our own idiolect

—p.108 Salvaging the Dormant: On Language (95) missing author

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