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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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telos

Utterly without a telos, it is so vast and, crucially, so diffuse, so devoid of a centre

on the process of self-affection by society

—p.95 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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constructivism

who would deny the existence of constructivist projects of desire

the footnote after constructivist refers to Hayek's "The Persistence of Constructivism in Current Thought" in "Law, Legislation, and Liberty"

—p.94 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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those who consent are no freer than anyone else

[...] Those who consent are no freer than anyone else, and are no less ‘yielding’ than the enslaved; only, they have been made to yield differently and thus experience their determination joyfully. There is no consent, in the same way that there is no voluntary servitude. There are only happy subje…

—p.91 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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I kindly ask you not to hire me

[...] Performance artist Julien Prévieux provides a fine example with the letters of non-application that he sends in response to job offers: ‘I write to you following your ad in the journal Carriers and Jobs. I swear I never did anything wrong … I don’t do drugs. I love animals. I don’t steal. I…

—p.85 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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the girlfriend experience

[...] It is a safe bet that if one day, following a change in customs and regulations, prostitution leaves the underworld to become an official trade, any company entering that market will expect its employees to kiss, and then to love, for real. Neoliberal capital is the world of the _girlfriend e…

—p.84 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon