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apophatic

the discourse o f the limits of words, of what is not and cannot be said. Its name comes from the Greek term meaning 'negation' or 'denial'. It is called apophasis.

—p.120 Silence in Debris: Towards an Apophatic Marxism (115) by China Miéville
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cataphatic

Positive theology speaks claims about the divine - that God is Father, love, beauty, good. This, the via positivia, the positive way, is called cataphatic, from the Greek for 'affirmation'.

—p.120 Silence in Debris: Towards an Apophatic Marxism (115) by China Miéville
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aporia

Uncertainties, aporia, scepticisms and the shifting incompleteness to which they lead - the negative space of thought -should constitute collective politics alongside affirmations and suggestions.

—p.120 Silence in Debris: Towards an Apophatic Marxism (115) by China Miéville
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supererogation

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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lachrymose

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

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