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variegated

Operaismo is a variegated tendency, the positions of whose main representatives have developed considerably over the years

—p.81 Michael Hardt and Toni Negri, or the ‘Joy of Being Communist’ (79) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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Marxist

The question of who is a Marxist today is highly complex. It always has been, because this current has always been plural. [...] Moreover, all contemporary critical theories are, in a sense, ‘post-Marxist’. Marxism was so dominant in the twentieth century that no theory escaped its influence.

—p.61 Contemporary Critical Intellectuals: A Typology (51) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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simulacrum

Our age is characterized by the proliferation of ‘simulacra’: a ‘replacement of reality by signs of reality’.

—p.58 Contemporary Critical Intellectuals: A Typology (51) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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Situationism

These texts derived from Situationist circles, issuing from the crossing of a libertarian Marxism and the tradition of the French avant-gardes, Dadaist, Surrealist and Lettrist in particular.

—p.48 A Brief History of the ‘New Left’ (1956–77) (33) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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