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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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sine qua non

even the keenest liberals are hard-pressed to argue that capitalism remains the vehicle and sine qua non of modernity and progress

—p.5 Introduction (1) by Armen Avanessian, Robin Mackay
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tabula rasa

a politics that must hope for the worst and can think the future only as apocalypse and tabula rasa

—p.4 Introduction (1) by Armen Avanessian, Robin Mackay
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immanence

embodied in writings that sought an immanence with this process of alienation

—p.4 Introduction (1) by Armen Avanessian, Robin Mackay
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a ghost never dies

[...] Capitalist societies can always heave a sigh of relief and say to themselves: communism is finished since the collapse of the totalitarianisms of the twentieth century and not only is it finished, but it did not take place, it was only a ghost. They do no more than disavow the undeniable itse…

—p.123 Specters of Marx In the Name of the Revolution, the Double Barricade (Impure "impure impure history of ghosts") (118) by Jacques Derrida