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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ideology lets us deceive ourselves

[...] the way individuals experience their situation: there is no way for them to step out of their world and somehow see, from 'outside', how things 'really are'? Ideology does not reside primarily in stories invented (by those in power) to deceive others, it resides in stories invented by subject…

—p.89 Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours Hateful Thousands in Cologne (83) by Slavoj Žižek
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there is no zero-level of humanity

As much as a good-hearted rich man may want to think that underneath all his wealth, he is just the same kind of human being as the poor are, he is wrong. Once we have our social (class) positions, there is no zero-level of humanity where we are all the same. He is not one of them: they are not i…

—p.81 The Limits of Neighborhood (73) missing author
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reifying

The soldier could then take refuge only in reified duty--'I don't like it, but it is my duty'

—p.77 The Limits of Neighborhood (73) by Slavoj Žižek
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