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Art/Literary - Philosophy | | Spanish term or phrase: policial | This is from an essay written by a Spanish art historian-cum-philosopher-cum-politician. It's quite involved with numerous technical uses of normally relatively innocuous terms, meaning that I am very often having to resort to literal translation, more than I usually do.
This particular term appears several times, but here are a couple of examples:
"Y, conveniente es subrayarlo, no hay nada más normativo y *policial*que el acto de fundar un lugar, de codificarlo y de otorgarle unos límites en función de un básico sistema de aceptación/exclusión."
"Es indudable, a este respecto, que, después del 11 – S, el miedo se ha convertido en el principal creador de comunidades. De hecho, las sociedades contemporáneas, sin excepción, se hallan articuladas en torno a la idea de la “catástrofe inminente”; y es este sentimiento angustioso, asfixiante, el que posibilita la transformación del miedo en el mayor medio de gestión *policial* de la sociedad."
"Si se parte del supuesto de que la arquitectura “monumental” es huella, de suyo irá el obtener como conclusión que lo arquitectónico funciona, en estos casos, como una “marca de autoridad” –en el doble sentido, además, de “autor” y de *“policial”*."
"Police" doesn't really work (certainly not in the first case anyway) and I've thought about a few options (tyrannical, surveillance-society, dictatorial, controlling) without being convinced by any of them.
The author sets great store by the French philospher Alain Badiou, so if there are any connoisseurs of his work here (unlikely on Xmas Eve, I know) this may be right up your street. |
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| | authoritarian | Explanation:
From the Oxford:
authoritarian
■ adjective favouring or enforcing strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom.
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  Simon Bruni
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Local time: 06:19
| Grading comment Great answer. Cheers Simon and thanks to everyone else as well.
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38 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +3 authoritarian
Explanation:
From the Oxford:
authoritarian
■ adjective favouring or enforcing strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom.
Does this more or less fit the bill?
| Simon Bruni
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:19
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 8
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| | Grading comment | Great answer. Cheers Simon and thanks to everyone else as well. |
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