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an excessive amount of something

142

the surfeit of digital image-production—spam advertising being the most abundant—is neither the swarm of wish-fulfilment fantasies nor the tool of domination it is often taken to be

—p.142 The Material Image (136) by Tony Wood
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the surfeit of digital image-production—spam advertising being the most abundant—is neither the swarm of wish-fulfilment fantasies nor the tool of domination it is often taken to be

—p.142 The Material Image (136) by Tony Wood
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(noun) a eulogistic oration or writing / (noun) formal or elaborate praise

146

This is the moment when panegyrics to ‘American empire’ were much in vogue.

—p.146 The Toughness Crew (145) by Anders Stephanson
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This is the moment when panegyrics to ‘American empire’ were much in vogue.

—p.146 The Toughness Crew (145) by Anders Stephanson
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(adjective) crowded or pressed together; compact / (adjective) marked by ridges; serrate / (verb) to press together especially in ranks / (verb) to crowd together

147

Reagan was in truth always a dove, refusing all large-scale interventions and then eagerly seizing on the opportunity to embrace Gorbachev, all against the serried force of his own neo-con supporters.

—p.147 The Toughness Crew (145) by Anders Stephanson
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Reagan was in truth always a dove, refusing all large-scale interventions and then eagerly seizing on the opportunity to embrace Gorbachev, all against the serried force of his own neo-con supporters.

—p.147 The Toughness Crew (145) by Anders Stephanson
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an 8,000-word telegram from George Kennan, an American official in the Moscow embassy, responding to a request from the State Department for an analysis of the Soviet position; Feb 1946.

148

The Long Telegram (just as the later X-Article) is ‘rejectionist’ through and through. It was precisely this aspect that made it so useful. The Soviet regime became an unchangeable essence of total, destructive, expansionist power, a state with which no relations of traditional diplomacy were possible.

—p.148 The Toughness Crew (145) by Anders Stephanson
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The Long Telegram (just as the later X-Article) is ‘rejectionist’ through and through. It was precisely this aspect that made it so useful. The Soviet regime became an unchangeable essence of total, destructive, expansionist power, a state with which no relations of traditional diplomacy were possible.

—p.148 The Toughness Crew (145) by Anders Stephanson
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(adjective) marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view; biased

148

This had always been Kennan’s tendential position. It now became the official US position.

—p.148 The Toughness Crew (145) by Anders Stephanson
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This had always been Kennan’s tendential position. It now became the official US position.

—p.148 The Toughness Crew (145) by Anders Stephanson
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an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War; announced March 12, 1947 and further developed on July 12, 1948 when Truman pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey

149

The universalism of the Truman Doctrine in March 1947 was thus not a mistake or a momentary lapse of judgement. It was essential for the whole operation.

—p.149 The Toughness Crew (145) by Anders Stephanson
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The universalism of the Truman Doctrine in March 1947 was thus not a mistake or a momentary lapse of judgement. It was essential for the whole operation.

—p.149 The Toughness Crew (145) by Anders Stephanson
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(verb) to catch or hold in or as if in a net; enmesh / (verb) to prevent or impede the free play of; confine

151

the presidency commands and acts in virtually untrammelled ways

—p.151 The Toughness Crew (145) by Anders Stephanson
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the presidency commands and acts in virtually untrammelled ways

—p.151 The Toughness Crew (145) by Anders Stephanson
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(adjective) marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view; biased

160

These are tendentious stabs at critique, designed to back up Short’s notion of a drip-drip-drip effect of colonial inculcation, and they are weak ones.

—p.160 Projecting Empire (153) by Esther Leslie
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These are tendentious stabs at critique, designed to back up Short’s notion of a drip-drip-drip effect of colonial inculcation, and they are weak ones.

—p.160 Projecting Empire (153) by Esther Leslie
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referring to Frankfurt School sociologist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas, best known for his theories on communicative rationality and the public sphere

160

that sits better with the theoretical impulses worked through here from cultural studies and Habermasian ideas

—p.160 Projecting Empire (153) by Esther Leslie
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that sits better with the theoretical impulses worked through here from cultural studies and Habermasian ideas

—p.160 Projecting Empire (153) by Esther Leslie
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