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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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capitalism's failures as a way of measuring success

[...] when you think of the long-standing idea of art in opposition to the dominant culture, if only by keeping its autonomy from the pursuit of money—the only common value great writers from right to left have acknowledged—you begin to sense what we have lost. Capitalism as a system for the equita…

—p.315 Happiness: Ten Years of n+1 Money (307) by Keith Gessen
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the true ugliness on the inside

You saw a look of sadness and yearning in Samuel’s face when he had subsided from one of his misanthropic tirades—there was no limit to the scorn he heaped on the intellectual pretensions of others—and it put you on guard against him. What you sensed about him was that his abiding rage was closely …

—p.205 The Face of Seung-Hui Cho (190) by Wesley Yang
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binding people into imagined collectivities

[...] We know, in short, identity politics, which, when it isn’t acting as a violent outlet for the narcissism of the age, can serve as its antidote, binding people into imagined collectivities capable of taking action to secure their interests and assert their personhood.

—p.202 The Face of Seung-Hui Cho (190) by Wesley Yang
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I also had a bad personality project/panopticon

Not that I was myself homosexual. True, my heterosexuality was notional. I wasn’t much to look at (skinny, acne-prone, brace-faced, bespectacled, and Asian), and inasmuch as I was ugly, I also had a bad personality. While Ethan was easing himself into same-sex experimentation, I was learning about …

—p.192 The Face of Seung-Hui Cho (190) by Wesley Yang
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a literary/political/intellectual left inspo/anti-capitalism

If such a thing as a literary/political/intellectual left exists, it is defined by its capacity for imaginative and sympathetic reach—by its willingness to surmount barriers of difference (class, distance, nationality) and agitate for a more equitable distribution of the goods and goodnesses that m…

—p.150 An Interruption (140) by Chad Harbach