Welcome to Bookmarker!

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

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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we are marvellously protected

Cards, that virtual money, protect us from the vulgarity of cash. But money itself, that artefact of value, protects us from the vulgarity of the commodity. And the commodity, that artefact of desire, protects us from the vulgarity of human relations. In this way, we are marvellously protected.

—p.99 Fragments: Cool Memories III, 1990-1995 by Jean Baudrillard
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hermeneutic

Might you perhaps hurl yourself into the void through this therapeutic window? How about a hermeneutic window from which to hurl yourself beyond meaning? Or an existential window from which to hurl yourself out of existence and the perpetual reason for existing?

I'm just spitballing here but I think he's undergoing some medical treatment

—p.95 by Jean Baudrillard
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lubricious

I slipped into this tricky business like a cat into a sack, and all the lubricious vipers began to writhe.

—p.88 by Jean Baudrillard
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ipseity

The presupposed Adamic ipseity is priceless.

—p.88 by Jean Baudrillard
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dehiscence

if the difference is weak, that is because the dehiscence is nil

I think this fragment is deliberately meant to be nonsense but who knows

—p.86 by Jean Baudrillard
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