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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 very idea of employment

[...] Does not capitalism, in conceding that abolishing the hierarchy and giving free rein to initiative and collaboration are the real requisites of productive creativity, embark on the road to the free association of workers, impelled by its inherent tendency? If indeed the artist is a possible a…

—p.125 Willing Slaves of Capital: Spinoza and Marx on Desire Domination, Liberation (105) by Frédéric Lordon
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dialectic

brings back a dialectical figure we had believed lost: that of capitalism’s self-transcendence out of its own contradictions

—p.125 Domination, Liberation (105) by Frédéric Lordon
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biotope

The fact remains that the existence of such scandalous biotopes of autonomy from the common law of employment is to some extent an homage vice pays to virtue

referring to "creatives" (artists, etc) who function somewhat outside capital, or at least outside the confines of the organisation

—p.124 Domination, Liberation (105) by Frédéric Lordon
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to pull the legs of the employees

For this is indeed the task of capitalist epithumogenesis, to pull the legs of the employees, in all the senses of that expression. First, to get them to move, which means, returning to the basic significations of auto-mobility, to make them move themselves, and in the most mundanely physical sen…

—p.121 Domination, Liberation (105) by Frédéric Lordon
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declension

as its own specific declension of bossing in general

—p.121 Domination, Liberation (105) by Frédéric Lordon
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