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Max Haiven
75
Interlude: Ahab’s coin, or Moby Dick’s currencies?
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synecdoche
(en)
a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole (as fifty sail for fifty ships), the whole for a part (as society for high society), the species for the genus (as cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as a creature for a man), or the name of the material for the thing made (as boards for stage)
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The coin here might be read as a material allegory, or in some sense a synecdoche (a small part which represents the whole) of capital itself.
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The coin here might be read as a material allegory, or in some sense a synecdoche (a small part which represents the whole) of capital itself.
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heterotopic
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(adjective) occurring in an abnormal place / a concept in human geography elaborated by philosopher Michel Foucault to describe places and spaces that function in non-hegemonic conditions
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Michel Foucault, for one, identified the ship as the heterotopia par excellence: the space that is both within and outside the social order
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Michel Foucault, for one, identified the ship as the heterotopia par excellence: the space that is both within and outside the social order
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