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Artifact (n.) is what belief becomes when a living ritual is converted into an aesthetic object.
Authoritarianism (n.) can share a street with franchise coffee bars.
Capitalism (n.) is harder to imagine than the end of the world.
Capitalism (n.) turns religious icons, pornography, and Das Kapital into comparable prices.
Capitalism (n.) is what remains when belief collapses and the consumer-spectator trudges through its ruins.
Capitalist realism (n.) is capitalism becoming the boundary of coherent imagination.
Capitalist realism (n.) sells lowered expectations as protection from terror and totalitarianism.
Catastrophe (n.) does not arrive with a bang; it winks out the world by degrees.
Crisis (n.) becomes permanent when emergency measures become unimaginable to repeal.
Future (n.) fails when it offers only reiteration and re-permutation.
Helplessness (n.) makes action pointless and senseless hope sensible.
Icon (n.) acquires its status when it has been deprived of function and context.