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(adj) exhibiting different colors, especially as irregular patches or streaks

118

It is both the means of accelerated accumulation, as well as the variegated result of said accumulation - the mass of self-expanding capital.

—p.118 Behemoth and Leviathan: The Fascist Bestiary of the Alt-Right (109) missing author
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5 years, 4 months ago

It is both the means of accelerated accumulation, as well as the variegated result of said accumulation - the mass of self-expanding capital.

—p.118 Behemoth and Leviathan: The Fascist Bestiary of the Alt-Right (109) missing author
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5 years, 4 months ago

(noun) curse execration

140

Oppression is an ancestral, compelling, almost ontological malediction.

—p.140 Melancholy Images, from Left Wing Melancholia: Marxis, History and Memory (137) missing author
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5 years, 4 months ago

Oppression is an ancestral, compelling, almost ontological malediction.

—p.140 Melancholy Images, from Left Wing Melancholia: Marxis, History and Memory (137) missing author
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5 years, 4 months ago

(adjective) indigenous native / (adjective) formed or originating in the place where found

144

the fictional Caribbean island of Queimada, whose autochthonous population has been smashed by the colonisers

—p.144 Melancholy Images, from Left Wing Melancholia: Marxis, History and Memory (137) missing author
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5 years, 4 months ago

the fictional Caribbean island of Queimada, whose autochthonous population has been smashed by the colonisers

—p.144 Melancholy Images, from Left Wing Melancholia: Marxis, History and Memory (137) missing author
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5 years, 4 months ago

an ancient religious movement that has to do with duality? "an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness"

146

it is through such a 'Manichean' violence, symmetrical to the enemy's violence, that the oppressed achieve the awareness of their own strength.

—p.146 Melancholy Images, from Left Wing Melancholia: Marxis, History and Memory (137) missing author
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5 years, 4 months ago

it is through such a 'Manichean' violence, symmetrical to the enemy's violence, that the oppressed achieve the awareness of their own strength.

—p.146 Melancholy Images, from Left Wing Melancholia: Marxis, History and Memory (137) missing author
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5 years, 4 months ago

(adjective) lying under or below / (adjective) lower than though not directly below

146

The vision of history subjacent to both films is a kind of revolutionary historicism that posits guerilla onflict and revolution as ineluctable.

pretty

—p.146 Melancholy Images, from Left Wing Melancholia: Marxis, History and Memory (137) missing author
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5 years, 4 months ago

The vision of history subjacent to both films is a kind of revolutionary historicism that posits guerilla onflict and revolution as ineluctable.

pretty

—p.146 Melancholy Images, from Left Wing Melancholia: Marxis, History and Memory (137) missing author
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5 years, 4 months ago

clear and obvious, in a stark or exaggerated form

147

It was as if his own feeling of impotence were writ large on the political scene everywhere.

—p.147 Melancholy Images, from Left Wing Melancholia: Marxis, History and Memory (137) by Edward W. Said
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5 years, 4 months ago

It was as if his own feeling of impotence were writ large on the political scene everywhere.

—p.147 Melancholy Images, from Left Wing Melancholia: Marxis, History and Memory (137) by Edward W. Said
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5 years, 4 months ago

(noun) a container or shrine in which sacred relics are kept

147

It can only be conserved, in a reliquary form, as a testimony of an experience related to history by an emotional link.

—p.147 Melancholy Images, from Left Wing Melancholia: Marxis, History and Memory (137) by Enzo Traverso
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5 years, 4 months ago

It can only be conserved, in a reliquary form, as a testimony of an experience related to history by an emotional link.

—p.147 Melancholy Images, from Left Wing Melancholia: Marxis, History and Memory (137) by Enzo Traverso
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5 years, 4 months ago

(noun) the act of renouncing or rejecting something; self-denial

in total

166

Economic liberalism maintains and reproduces a moral discourse of righteousness and an institutional façade of human rights. Nevertheless, it must be rejected in toto because it necessarily also furthers a policy agenda of fear and social hierarchy

—p.166 ‘With or Without You’: Naturalising Migrants and the Never-Ending Tragedy of Liberalism (161) missing author
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5 years, 4 months ago

Economic liberalism maintains and reproduces a moral discourse of righteousness and an institutional façade of human rights. Nevertheless, it must be rejected in toto because it necessarily also furthers a policy agenda of fear and social hierarchy

—p.166 ‘With or Without You’: Naturalising Migrants and the Never-Ending Tragedy of Liberalism (161) missing author
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5 years, 4 months ago

sop (en)

(noun) a piece of food dipped or steeped in a liquid / (noun) a conciliatory or propitiatory bribe, gift, or gesture / (verb) to steep or dip in or as if in liquid / (verb) to wet thoroughly; soak / (verb) mop / (abbreviation) standard operating procedure; standing operating procedure