autarkic
(en)
the condition of self-sufficiency, especially economic, as applied to a nation; a national policy of economic independence
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Amin's autarkic policies were in fact adopted by the Khmer Rouge
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Amin's autarkic policies were in fact adopted by the Khmer Rouge
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creative destruction
(en)
the incessant product and process innovation mechanism by which new production units replace outdated ones; coined by Joseph Schumpeter in 1942 as "the essential fact about capitalism"
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in fact, the very idea of "creative destruction" comes entirely from Marx. Schumpeter is the only significant right-wing, procapitalist economist who actually took the trouble to read Marx carefully and seriously
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in fact, the very idea of "creative destruction" comes entirely from Marx. Schumpeter is the only significant right-wing, procapitalist economist who actually took the trouble to read Marx carefully and seriously
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qualia
(en)
(noun) in philosophy: a property (as redness) considered apart from things having the property; individual instances of subjective, conscious experience
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argue that aesthetic experience--or what they more often call inner sensation, or the experience of "qualia", or "consciousness" tout court--doesn't really exist
on analytic philosophy
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argue that aesthetic experience--or what they more often call inner sensation, or the experience of "qualia", or "consciousness" tout court--doesn't really exist
on analytic philosophy
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6 years, 3 months ago
extirpate
(en)
(verb) to destroy completely; wipe out / (verb) to pull up by the root / (verb) to cut out by surgery
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this ubiquitous aestheticization is also a radical extirpation of the aesthetic
quite poetic
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this ubiquitous aestheticization is also a radical extirpation of the aesthetic
quite poetic
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