co-option
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Like the indie sleaze photos, what had once felt like an authentic ethos has become a marketing campaign ripe with co-option.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2024
That’s why trying to present anthropological work “impartially,” letting the data speak for itself, leaves the door open to co-option, said Robin Nelson, a biological anthropologist at Arizona State University.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 29, 2024
The Seattle Times spoke with Gordon over Zoom about the capitalist co-option of body positivity, how white supremacy is built into health care, and how hosting “Maintenance Phase” has changed her life.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2023
It’s also difficult to assess as art, given how it collapses lines between collaboration and co-option and between cinema and supportive treatment.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
Duigenan explains that it took five years’ hard study to get a fellowship; that the juniors were subject to incessant toil and irksome bondage as tutors, and that their single compensating prospect was co-option.
From The Commercial Restraints of Ireland by John Hely Hutchinson
Overall, there were 16 co-options during the past four years.
From BBC ● May 15, 2023
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