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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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panopticon

disciplinary society has its Panopticon, the extension of carceral logic from the penal system outward into all institutions of social conditioning

—p.120 Chapter 5: Spaces of Indebtedness (119) by Richard Dienst
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Gilles Deleuze

In order to start thinking about the relationship between indebted- ness, visibility, and space, we can turn to an essay by Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on Control Societies” (1990).

he seems like someone I need to start reading

—p.118 Chapter 4: Letter to Bono (95) by Richard Dienst
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the new paradigm is the same as the old one

It is hard to avoid the impression that the “new paradigm” is essentially the same as the old one, now pursuing global free market restructuring in the name of morality rather than economic efficiency. [...] Above all Sachs wants to argue that the end of poverty can be accomplished without diminish…

—p.115 Chapter 4: Letter to Bono (95) by Richard Dienst
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Washington Consensus

The so-called Washington Consensus, confidently enforced by the IMF, World Bank, and other economic institutions since the 1970s, has been comprehensively challenged from within the ranks of its own practitioners.

—p.114 Chapter 4: Letter to Bono (95) by Richard Dienst
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ineluctable

From moment to moment, television has an ineluctable way of making connections, sometimes surprising and sometimes not surprising at all.

—p.107 Chapter 4: Letter to Bono (95) by Richard Dienst
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