revanchism
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(noun) revenge / (noun) a usually political policy designed to recover lost territory or status
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a new round of neo-conservative revanchist politics took hold against a backdrop of "get Osama Bin Laden"
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a new round of neo-conservative revanchist politics took hold against a backdrop of "get Osama Bin Laden"
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anodyne
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(noun) a painkilling drug or medicine
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Technocrats placate through anodyne consensus
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Technocrats placate through anodyne consensus
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consummate
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(adjective) complete in every detail; perfect / (adjective) extremely skilled and accomplished / (adjective) of the highest degree / (verb) finish complete / (verb) to make perfect / (verb) achieve / (verb) to make (marital union) complete by sexual intercourse / (verb) to become perfected
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With consummate skill
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With consummate skill
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libertine
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(noun) a freethinker especially in religious matters / (noun) a person who is unrestrained by convention or morality / (noun) one leading a dissolute life
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Politics should be like poetry: something hot, the voice of hotness from the margins, libertine excess, anti-science, red-hot bubbling altermarxisme
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Politics should be like poetry: something hot, the voice of hotness from the margins, libertine excess, anti-science, red-hot bubbling altermarxisme
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soporific
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(adjective) causing or tending to cause sleep / (adjective) tending to dull awareness or alertness / (adjective) of, relating to, or marked by sleepiness or lethargy / (noun) a soporific agent / (noun) hypnotic
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maintains us in a state of soporific wakefulness
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maintains us in a state of soporific wakefulness
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interstice
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(noun) an intervening space
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Magical Marxism [...] lodges itself somewhere within the interstices of a liberated time and liberated space, between the right to free time and the right to free space
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Magical Marxism [...] lodges itself somewhere within the interstices of a liberated time and liberated space, between the right to free time and the right to free space
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sundered
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(verb) to break apart or in two; separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space / (verb) to become parted, disunited, or severed
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what Marxists like Hollowoy tell us has been sundered: addressing the ontological separation between the doing and the done
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what Marxists like Hollowoy tell us has been sundered: addressing the ontological separation between the doing and the done
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interpellation
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(common Althusserian term) the process by which ideology, embodied in major social and political institutions (ideological & repressive state apparatuses), constitutes the very nature of individual subjects' identities through the process of "hailing" them in social interactions
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All totalizing systems that interpellate individual subjects to coincide strictly with their chosen role as social beings always "expulse" a certain residue
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All totalizing systems that interpellate individual subjects to coincide strictly with their chosen role as social beings always "expulse" a certain residue
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interstice
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(noun) an intervening space
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Experiments in other modes of life are being explored within this new community, in the interstices of a society
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Experiments in other modes of life are being explored within this new community, in the interstices of a society
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