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speculum [′spek·yə·ləm] (medicine) A tubular instrument for inserting into a passage or cavity of the body to facilitate visual inspection or medication. (optics) An optical instrument reflector of polished metal or of glass with a film of metal. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Five Click Cunts, 1969, drawings in Prismacolor on muslin, resemble daisy-wheel specula or labial viewfinders, the bodily associations of which are emphasized by their title's verbal cue. The present volume forms the catalog of an exhibit and conference held at Stanford University in 2001, celebrating the acquisition of a nearly complete collection of Kircher's published works by Stanford's library (save one, Specula Melitensis, 1638, and even that work can be consulted at Stanford, reprinted in another volume). Instead it was the manifestation of the specula tive excesses of finance capital concentrating wealth to back the flimsiest of business schemes, promoting belief in the value of technology "intangibles" in a mariner not unlike Veblen's analysis of Ivory Soap -- where inflated valuation was attributable to nothing more tangible than the marketing success in selling the notion "it floats. |
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