by
Armen Avanessian,
Robin Mackay
(editors)
Thanatos
(en)
(Greek mythology) the personification of death
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pulling deity and creature into the thanatropic circuits of auto-annihilation, making the God die his own creature's death: the fatal irony of libidinal migration
on the death of God
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pulling deity and creature into the thanatropic circuits of auto-annihilation, making the God die his own creature's death: the fatal irony of libidinal migration
on the death of God
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anastrophe
(en)
(noun) inversion of the usual syntactical order of words for rhetorical effect (literary device)
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Self-designing processes are anastrophic and convergent: doing things before they make sense.
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Self-designing processes are anastrophic and convergent: doing things before they make sense.
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eschatology
(en)
the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind
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The eternally deferred eschatologies of the left are consigned to the white trash-can of the future and leave a present tense with synthetic possibilities
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The eternally deferred eschatologies of the left are consigned to the white trash-can of the future and leave a present tense with synthetic possibilities
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Canute
(en)
referring to an apocryphal anecdote illustrating the piety or humility of King Canute the Great, in which he demonstrates to his courtiers that he has no control over the elements (the incoming tide), explaining that secular power is vain compared to the supreme power of God
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the contemporary Left's tendencies towards Canutism
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the contemporary Left's tendencies towards Canutism
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fiat
(en)
(noun) an authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree
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We cannot return to mass industrial-Fordits labour by fiat, if at all.
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We cannot return to mass industrial-Fordits labour by fiat, if at all.
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operaismo
(it)
workerism: a political theory that emphasizes the importance of, or glorifies, the working class
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Within and against: the traditional refrain of Operaism returns
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Within and against: the traditional refrain of Operaism returns
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morass
(en)
(noun) marsh swamp / (noun) a situation that traps, confuses, or impedes / (noun) an overwhelming or confusing mass or mixture
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breaking out of the current planetary morass
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breaking out of the current planetary morass
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noetic
(en)
(adjective) of, relating to, or based on the intellect
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Norm consumerism is another name for cognitive servitude and noetic sloth
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Norm consumerism is another name for cognitive servitude and noetic sloth
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Habermasian
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referring to Frankfurt School sociologist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas, best known for his theories on communicative rationality and the public sphere
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such as Habermasian rationality
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such as Habermasian rationality
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