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So, we can understand financialization as a terrain of struggle and friction between different spheres and cycles of reproduction: the reproduction of capital writ large

—p.39 The Reproduction of Fictitious Capital: The Social Fictions and Metaphoric Wealth of Financialization (15) by Max Haiven
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5 years, 1 month ago

we can understand “fictitious capital” writ large as the way capital spins a crucial social fiction about the nature of the world.

—p.40 The Reproduction of Fictitious Capital: The Social Fictions and Metaphoric Wealth of Financialization (15) by Max Haiven
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5 years, 1 month ago


This is Freud’s pleasure principle writ large—a social experience that is centered around pursuing endless saccharine indulgences with the promise of avoiding reality.

—p.32 An Internet Built around Consumption Is a Bad Place to Live (12) by Lizzie O'Shea
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4 years, 1 month ago


Inside, the nature of local preoccupations is writ large upon the walls

—p.21 Notes on a Suicide (13) missing author
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4 years, 4 months ago


Confidence Men writ large, as a moral stench in the nostrils of society

—p.44 The Three Faces of Risk (31) by Steve Fraser
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2 years, 11 months ago


It was as if his own feeling of impotence were writ large on the political scene everywhere.

—p.147 Melancholy Images, from Left Wing Melancholia: Marxis, History and Memory (137) by Edward W. Said
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5 years, 2 months ago

Sonora Review DFW Tribute
by multiple authors

Sonora Review DFW Tribute
by multiple authors

Sonora Review DFW Tribute
by multiple authors


Wallace frankly invites his readers to conflate Nechtr's conflicted feelings about Professor Ambrose with his own misgivings about Barthian metafiction writ large

—p.31 Heading Westward (28) by Marshall Boswell
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6 years, 7 months ago


the new venue’s art will be made to work, to prove a “fit” with the cultural tastes of the supertallified city: an injunction writ large in the choice of that utilitarian name

—p.24 The Needles and the Damage Done (20) missing author
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4 years, 8 months ago


In them, as in the artist, the proportions of response were writ large

—p.22 by Vivian Gornick
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3 years, 1 month ago


"evolutionist" view of the future which regards it simply as more of the present. It is simply the present writ large

—p.72 Chapter Four (64) by Terry Eagleton
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6 years, 6 months ago


As the international division of labor grows starker, the condition of the housewife is writ large, leaving the women of the “third world” to clean up the damage inflicted by the first.

wonderful sentence

—p.198 On Silvia Federici and Martha Rosler (189) by Dayna Tortorici
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4 years ago


a terrible trial for poor Angus, who felt he’d done nothing to deserve it. He stalked off the yacht at the earliest possible opportunity, injured innocence writ large on his brow.

—p.101 Two Stories (95) by Helen DeWitt
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4 years, 3 months ago


According to Marx’s Capital, states secure the reproduction of capital writ large by sometimes setting themselves against individual bosses, who in their pursuit of accumulation and short-term returns fail to safeguard durable prosperity

—p.27 Renewed Labour (24) by Barnaby Raine
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4 years ago