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Salvage #6: Evidence of Things Not Seen
by multiple authors (editors)

Salvage #6: Evidence of Things Not Seen
by multiple authors (editors)

Salvage #6: Evidence of Things Not Seen
by multiple authors (editors)

(adjective) having the same or coincident boundaries / (adjective) coextensive in scope or duration

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As though simplicity, directness and 'clarity' in this sense were coterminous.

—p.15 Caedmon's Dream: On the Politics of Style (7) by Richard Seymour
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As though simplicity, directness and 'clarity' in this sense were coterminous.

—p.15 Caedmon's Dream: On the Politics of Style (7) by Richard Seymour
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when a word or phrase has multiple meanings (from Greek)

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There is hardly a sentence in English that is not in some sense polysemic, with a range of possible interpretations.

—p.18 Caedmon's Dream: On the Politics of Style (7) by Richard Seymour
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There is hardly a sentence in English that is not in some sense polysemic, with a range of possible interpretations.

—p.18 Caedmon's Dream: On the Politics of Style (7) by Richard Seymour
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(adjective) of, relating to, or characterized by play; playful

21

The linguistically gamesome, literarily ludic, neologising Marx arguably invented a whole dialect the better to theorise.

—p.21 Caedmon's Dream: On the Politics of Style (7) by Richard Seymour
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The linguistically gamesome, literarily ludic, neologising Marx arguably invented a whole dialect the better to theorise.

—p.21 Caedmon's Dream: On the Politics of Style (7) by Richard Seymour
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(noun) excessive or ostentatious pride especially in one's achievements / (noun) vain display or show; vanity

25

It would be at best vainglorious for a political writer to suppose herself exempt from this

—p.25 Caedmon's Dream: On the Politics of Style (7) by Richard Seymour
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It would be at best vainglorious for a political writer to suppose herself exempt from this

—p.25 Caedmon's Dream: On the Politics of Style (7) by Richard Seymour
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(adjective) marked by the view that all is for the best in this best of possible worlds; excessively optimistic

98

In the days of 'There Is No Alternative', we are all Panglossian pessimists: we live in the best of all possible worlds, and it is shit.

—p.98 Jewphobia (83) by Barnaby Raine
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In the days of 'There Is No Alternative', we are all Panglossian pessimists: we live in the best of all possible worlds, and it is shit.

—p.98 Jewphobia (83) by Barnaby Raine
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(German for worldview) a particular philosophy or view of life; the worldview of an individual or group

100

Jewish communal bodies wrote to Corbyn and blamed his sloppiness on a whole Weltanschauung of the 'far left', seeing not just anti-Zionism but all class politics as tinged with an innate tendency towards anti-Semitism

—p.100 Jewphobia (83) by Barnaby Raine
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Jewish communal bodies wrote to Corbyn and blamed his sloppiness on a whole Weltanschauung of the 'far left', seeing not just anti-Zionism but all class politics as tinged with an innate tendency towards anti-Semitism

—p.100 Jewphobia (83) by Barnaby Raine
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(noun) a noisy fight / (noun) disturbance uproar

103

The existence of Jewophobia is not a sufficient condition for liberal and conservative panic about it, but the same ructions might just explain both today.

—p.103 Jewphobia (83) by Barnaby Raine
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The existence of Jewophobia is not a sufficient condition for liberal and conservative panic about it, but the same ructions might just explain both today.

—p.103 Jewphobia (83) by Barnaby Raine
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(noun) unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition; rashness recklessness / (noun) a rash or reckless act

103

It takes considerable temerity to sit atop a Bantustan with immense military might, suffocating Gaza, sunbathing in Tel Aviv, living in the stolen homes of refugees, and then to play the victim

—p.103 Jewphobia (83) by Barnaby Raine
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It takes considerable temerity to sit atop a Bantustan with immense military might, suffocating Gaza, sunbathing in Tel Aviv, living in the stolen homes of refugees, and then to play the victim

—p.103 Jewphobia (83) by Barnaby Raine
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(adjective) given to tears or weeping; tearful / (adjective) tending to cause tears; mournful

115

The breakdown of old algorithms occasions epistemological crisis; hence liberalism's panicked lachrymosity, the outrage of denied entitlement, conspiracism and self-righteousness.

hahaha i love his writing

—p.115 Silence in Debris: Towards an Apophatic Marxism (115) by China Miéville
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The breakdown of old algorithms occasions epistemological crisis; hence liberalism's panicked lachrymosity, the outrage of denied entitlement, conspiracism and self-righteousness.

hahaha i love his writing

—p.115 Silence in Debris: Towards an Apophatic Marxism (115) by China Miéville
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(noun) the act of performing more than is required by duty, obligation, or need

117

contradictions and superpluses, the unconscious, the unsayable. They are not supererogatory to reality: to the contrary. Nor ca they be so to those who strive to change it.

—p.117 Silence in Debris: Towards an Apophatic Marxism (115) by China Miéville
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contradictions and superpluses, the unconscious, the unsayable. They are not supererogatory to reality: to the contrary. Nor ca they be so to those who strive to change it.

—p.117 Silence in Debris: Towards an Apophatic Marxism (115) by China Miéville
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