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malediction (en)

(noun) curse execration

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malediction


Aesthetics and Politics
by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin

Aesthetics and Politics
by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin

Aesthetics and Politics
by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin


it converts its own malediction into a theodicy

—p.194 Commitment (177) by Theodor W. Adorno
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8 years, 11 months ago

Salvage #5: Contractions
by China Miéville

Salvage #5: Contractions
by China Miéville

Salvage #5: Contractions
by China Miéville


Oppression is an ancestral, compelling, almost ontological malediction.

—p.140 Melancholy Images, from Left Wing Melancholia: Marxis, History and Memory (137) missing author
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7 years, 9 months ago