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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary

off-limits

1. Does "render" mean "provide" and "present"?

2. Does "off-limits" here mean "free and out of limitations"?

Context:

In other words, the city’s practices install constitutive effects and behaviours in the body of its citizenry that implicitly render some ways of being in the city ‘off-limits’ or ‘inconceivable’ as much as conceivable.
  

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com/us/definition/american_english/render ) off-limits: Not allowed

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"being" refers to "citizens", yes? But what does it mean "citizens being in the city forbidden or inconceivable"?
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red apple"being" refers to "citizens", yes? But what does it mean "citizens being in the city forbidden or inconceivable"?
"render X Y" means "cause X to become Y". In this sentence X is "some ways of being in the city", and Y is "off-limits or inconceivable (as much as conceivable)".

"being" means (I assume) something like "living" or "existing".
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@GPY what is your impression of "some ways of being in the city can be ‘off-limits’ or ‘inconceivable’ as much as conceivable"? Can you explain what you understand from it? Does it mean "some ways of presence in the city can be unavailable and forbidden as much as they may be available and allowed"?
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As far as I can tell, yes.
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