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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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valorization

Production is the magical moment in which what Marx terms 'the valorisation' of capital occurs.

—p.11 The Visualisation of Capital as Value in Motion (1) missing author
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did not resemble a large choice at the time

[...] But a life without stumbling is also unimaginable: perhaps to be in between two places, to be at home in neither, is the inevitable fallen state, almost as natural as being at home in the first place.

Almost. But not quite. When I left England eighteen years go, I didn't know then how stra…

—p.114 The Nearest Thing To Life Secular Homelessness (87) by James Wood
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they rescue us from our death why/read

What do writers do when they seriously notice the world? Perhaps they do nothing less than rescue the life of things from their death--from two deaths, one small and one large: from the 'death' which literary form always threatens to impose on life, and from actual death. Which is to say, they resc…

—p.53 Serious Noticing (29) by James Wood