camera obscura
(en)
(noun) a darkened enclosure having an aperture usually provided with a lens through which light from external objects enters to form an image of the objects on the opposite surface
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At the empty heart of the state, its camera obscura, is the primary act of violence by which it establishes the separation of objects from subjects
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At the empty heart of the state, its camera obscura, is the primary act of violence by which it establishes the separation of objects from subjects
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Mammon
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(noun) material wealth or possessions especially as having a debasing influence (from the New Testament)
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The capitalist class [...] forced upon the worker a subjectivity that viewed work as a debt owed at one and the same time to God and Mammon.
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The capitalist class [...] forced upon the worker a subjectivity that viewed work as a debt owed at one and the same time to God and Mammon.
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scion
(en)
(noun) a detached living portion of a plant (as a bud or shoot) joined to a stock in grafting and usually supplying solely aerial parts to a graft / (noun) descendant child / (noun) a descendant of a wealthy, aristocratic, or influential family / (noun) heir
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The pastoralists are the very scions of scarcity.
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The pastoralists are the very scions of scarcity.
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liminal
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ambiguous; occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold
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Property is a concept that occupies a liminal, undecidable place between economy and culture.
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Property is a concept that occupies a liminal, undecidable place between economy and culture.
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