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variegated
Aesthetics and Politics

an extremely complex and variegated set of dialectical relationships between 'high' and 'low' and 'avant-garde' and 'popular'strands

—p.108 Presentation III (100) by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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anodyne

a past and future stretching far beyond the anodyne riffs to which he confined it

editorialising on Adorno's analysis of jazz

—p.107 Presentation III (100) by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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hypostatisation

Benjamin, following Brecht, tended to hypostasize techniques in abstraction from relations of production

—p.107 Presentation III (100) by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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periphrasis

adept practitioners of the diplomatic art of euphemism and periphrasis, that knowingly does not call things by their name

—p.106 Presentation III (100) by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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thaumaturgy

credulous believer in the thaumaturgical virtue of 'calling things by their names'

—p.106 Presentation III (100) by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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