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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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the source of all poetry

a shaft of light from the telos falls onto labour. Basically, people are too short-sighted. They misinterpret the light that falls on labour from ultimate goals. Instead, they take labour qua labour as the telos and hence see their personal work success as that purpose. That is the secret. If they …

—p.15 The Role of Theory (1) by Max Horkheimer
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reifying

we succumb to the mechanism of reification, in the course of which we forget the best thing of all. That turns a part of the process into an absolute

—p.14 The Role of Theory (1) by Max Horkheimer
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cathexis

it is still unclear why work should be cathected in the first place

—p.12 The Role of Theory (1) by Theodor W. Adorno
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teleological

The gesture of the savage who pauses for an instant to reflect whether or not he wishes to eat his prisoner contains teleologically the end of violence

—p.7 The Role of Theory (1) by Theodor W. Adorno
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