And while vegans make catachresis, leather makes sustainability

And while vegans make catachresis, leather makes sustainability

We are used to hearing that “vegan leather” is an oxymoron: the juxtaposition of two terms with opposite meanings, but it doesn’t end there. Now, thanks to philosopher Raphaël Enthoven, we learn that vegans make catachresis: that is, they exploit a rhetorical figure to appropriate a term (and its imagery) and relocate it in another…

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