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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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edifying

commonplace edifying maxims – for example, top bosses who claim to be ‘as demanding of others as of themselves’, thus transmuting the projections of their own desire, made master-desire, into a moral virtue, and expressing in a blind adage of conative egocentricity the wish that others make that desire fully their own.

—p.36 Making Others Do Something (1) by Frédéric Lordon
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clinamen

The angle α is the clinamen of the individual conatus, its spontaneous misalignment relative to the ends of the enterprise: α thus expresses the persistent heterogeneity of the conatus relative to the master-desire

he has a diagram of the vectors on this page lol

—p.35 Making Others Do Something (1) by Frédéric Lordon
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ordoliberal

Alfred Müller-Armack, adviser to Ludwig Erhard and the thinker of ordoliberalism (which is the intellectual basis of the EU)

footnote 30

—p.31 Making Others Do Something (1) by Frédéric Lordon
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appealing only to the consumer in them

[...] The justifications offered for contemporary transformations in employment practices – from longer work hours (‘it allows stores to open on Sundays’) to competition-enhancing deregulation (‘it lowers prices’) – always contrive to catch agents by ‘the joyful affects’ of consumption, appealing o…

—p.30 Making Others Do Something (1) by Frédéric Lordon
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driven to externalise the bulk of the effort

[...] As can be expected, agents – both collective and individual – caught up in relations of dependence and placed in situations where they are obliged to defend vital interests – economic survival for enterprises, keeping their jobs for employees – are driven to externalise the bulk of the effort…

—p.27 Making Others Do Something (1) by Frédéric Lordon