metonymy
(en)
(noun) a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated (as “crown” in “lands belonging to the crown”)
Salvage #5: Contractions
by
China Miéville
(editor)
by
China Miéville
(editor)
Salvage #5: Contractions
by
China Miéville
(editor)
by
China Miéville
(editor)
Salvage #5: Contractions
by
China Miéville
(editor)
by
China Miéville
(editor)
with the crisis of their project in a destablising world, liberals’ obsession with norms of appearance, trappings and proprieties of a collapsing system, may grow, in glum aspirational metonymy
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