they never believe the books to which they have dedicated their lives to have originated in some uncorrupted primordial form, some prelapsarian and unspoiled sublimity

It would be dangerous and misleading to imagine that the near past was some prelapsarian state rife with political potentials, so it's as well to remember the role that commodification played in the production of culture throughout the twentieth century.

this doesn’t sound like a communist society premised on solidarity and shared activities, but a prelapsarian paradise wherein material needs are satisfied

the prelapsarian idyll of internet porn seems to have suffered the same fate as the internet as a whole

Already, I was feeling nostalgic for those prelapsarian weeks before she knew my name.

Back in those ancient prelapsarian days, "girl-on-girl" hadn't even been invented yet.

These moments will in retrospect appear golden-age, prelapsarian.

European dreams of exiting the EU to return to some prelapsarian national serenity in isolation

an example of prelapsarian high spirits which as of tonight will be another experience unavailable to me

the antithesis to some prelapsarian sort of creative production

San Francisco was the final stage of a prelapsarian era, the end of our generational Gold Rush, an unsustainable age of excess.

There was a political corollary to this prelapsarian dream