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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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neoliberalism

The neoliberal enterprise now seeks full alignment and the annulation of the drift

not a bad definition of neoliberalism tbh (though obvously incomplete)

—p.79 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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'my choice'

[...] Already little inclined to think of themselves as determined, desiring individuals are even more disposed to consider themselves the origins of their desires when both the complexity and the evanescence of the causal process that would have to be grasped make it particularly easy for them to …

—p.76 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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synoptic

Such complexity poses a challenge to synoptic presentation

—p.76 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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Althusserian

a subject remaining ‘separated from itself’, in the mysterious form of being ‘a stranger to oneself’ that pre-Althusserian readings of Marx sometimes revisit.

—p.74 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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passionate co-linearization

Among the many objects of desire [...] one finds not only strategic interests such as seeking promotion, receiving a raise, or beating competitors, but also the pursuit of the joy stemming from being loved by a superior, that is, loved both by a particular individual and by the institution (a great…

—p.73 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon