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(noun) a change or variation occurring in the course of something; successive, alternating, or changing phases or conditions, as of life or fortune; ups and downs

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vicissitudes



the vicissitudes of human relatings

—p.121 John Billy (119) by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 8 months ago


as though love were a full comprehensive insurance policy that could protect both parties from the vicissitudes of the real world of loss and disappointment

Fromm writing about marriage (after his wife died)

—p.295 Part V: The 1950s (259) by Stuart Jeffries
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7 years, 3 months ago


It is food that offers the most visceral embodiment of the benefits of the slow lifestyle, overcoming the vicissitudes of fast-paced capitalism by returning to an older culture of savouring meals and traditional production techniques.

—p.41 Why Aren’t We Winning? A Critique of Today’s Left (25) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek
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7 years, 3 months ago


Amid the political vicissitudes of the early 1990s, contemporary poetry itself seemed incapable of generating new political meanings

—p.70 Against Privatized Poetry (65) by Kirill Medvedev
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7 years, 3 months ago


How can culture and subjectivity not be transformed, when opened to the vicissitudes of this vaster landscape and population which is globalization itself?

—p.129 Aesthetics of Singularity (101) by Fredric Jameson
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7 years, 4 months ago


something exempt from the vicissitudes of time and history

—p.82 Ethics Without Principles (72) by Richard M. Rorty
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7 years, 2 months ago


an ongoing event whose discrete parts and moments, whatever their particular shapes and vicissitudes (vicissitudes! I'd susurrate the word time and again) have run together

—p.111 by Tom McCarthy
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4 years, 8 months ago


protected from the vicissitudes of Google's own economic fortunes

—p.202 "Free Lunch" in the Digital Era: Organization Is the New Content (193) by Mark Andrejevic
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6 years, 3 months ago


What might appear to each of us as vicissitudes of fate and fortune are actually organized by more durable relationships and processes that usually remain opaque.

—p.46 Chapter 2: Inequality, Poverty, Indebtedness (33) by Richard Dienst
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7 years, 3 months ago


an ideal, a kind of abstract utopia, a recovered country free of vicissitudes

—p.332 Packing My Father-in-Law's Library (327) by James Wood
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7 years, 3 months ago


don't the recent vicissitudes of Muslim fundamentalism confirm Walter Benjamin's old insight that 'every rise of Fascism bears witness to a failed revolution'?

—p.101 Prognosis (90) by Slavoj Žižek
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7 years, 3 months ago


How will the lives of the enlistees in the enterprise turn out, will they be sad or joyful? That will be decided by the vicissitudes of the process of epithumogenesis.

—p.127 Domination, Liberation (105) by Frédéric Lordon
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7 years, 4 months ago