Salvage #5: Contractions [terms]

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(adjective) easily crumbled or pulverized

194

the rock grows friable and flaky slates choke the soil of terraces

—p.194 Between Villages: The Way Things Go in the Ubagu (193) missing author

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the rock grows friable and flaky slates choke the soil of terraces

—p.194 Between Villages: The Way Things Go in the Ubagu (193) missing author

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(German for worldview) a particular philosophy or view of life; the worldview of an individual or group

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One of Freud’s few reflections on Marxism [...] described it as a Weltanschauung – world-view – comparable to religion, an intellectual construction that through its totalising work resolved all problems in a uniform way, thus leaving no questions open

—p.216 Not: Marxism as 'Organised Sarcasm' (209) by Richard Seymour

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One of Freud’s few reflections on Marxism [...] described it as a Weltanschauung – world-view – comparable to religion, an intellectual construction that through its totalising work resolved all problems in a uniform way, thus leaving no questions open

—p.216 Not: Marxism as 'Organised Sarcasm' (209) by Richard Seymour

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(noun) the act of performing more than is required by duty, obligation, or need

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the totally supererogatory outbursts of Capital

relateable tbh - i write this way too, when editors don't stop me

—p.218 Not: Marxism as 'Organised Sarcasm' (209) by Richard Seymour

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the totally supererogatory outbursts of Capital

relateable tbh - i write this way too, when editors don't stop me

—p.218 Not: Marxism as 'Organised Sarcasm' (209) by Richard Seymour

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an excessive amount of something

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a surfeit of luxury homes while everyone else crams themselves into shared flats and ever-more constrained lives

—p.223 A Place to Call Home (221) missing author

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a surfeit of luxury homes while everyone else crams themselves into shared flats and ever-more constrained lives

—p.223 A Place to Call Home (221) missing author

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a rhetorical term originally taught to Greek students as a way of bringing the experience of an object to a listener or reader through highly detailed descriptive writing

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1898 ekphrastic poem

—p.234 'What we believe in waits latent forever through all the continents': The Paris Commune and the Poetics of Martyrdom in the Fin de Siècle Socialist Print Culture (229) missing author

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1898 ekphrastic poem

—p.234 'What we believe in waits latent forever through all the continents': The Paris Commune and the Poetics of Martyrdom in the Fin de Siècle Socialist Print Culture (229) missing author

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(adjective) constituting or beginning with a poetic thesis

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Derrida calls this the thetic quality, the ability of words to form an arrow pointing outwards.