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241:"Most things they saw with us, as mathematical instruments, sea compasses, the virtue of the lodestone in drawing iron, a perspective glass whereby was shown many strange sights, burning glasses, wildfire works, gun, book, writing and reading, spring clocks that seemed to go off by themselves, and many other things that we had, were so strange unto them and so far exceeded their capabilities to comprehend the reason and means how they should be made and done that they thought they were rather the works of gods than of men, or at the leastwise they had been given and taught us of the gods" 22: 321:, that the very fact that he was born into the bourgeoisie provided his intellectual (and divine) superiority - in which case he would have been acting out of compassion. 43: 36: 149:
writes that the terms are often used to refer to the "capacity of the dominant order to generate subversion so as to use it to its own ends".
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This theory immediately implies maliciousness and Machiavellian callousness; this is not always the case.
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Barker, F. et al (2008) Uses of History: Marxism, Post-modernism and the Renaissance. pp. 12-13
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performance, which gives them 'high language' that can be used to get them out of trouble. The
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would provide better for their land. Thus the subversion was both produced and contained.
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in his 1988 essay "Invisible Bullets". It has subsequently become a much-used concept in
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act of production and containment and subversion. Again it is ambiguous whether the
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introduced the concept of subversion and containment as an instrument by describing
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is a play about people discovering art but Weeks exposes this as an
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The Question of Liz: Staging the Prisoner in 'Our Country's Good'
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was to shortly occur. This subverted the natives' belief system.
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Weeks, S (2000) 'The Question of Liz: Staging the Prisoner in
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is so as the Subversion must be invisible to the Subverted;
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A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
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Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
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originally wrote of this theory in its application to
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were being converted to (or assimilated into) another
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may not have been acting maliciously. The name of the
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