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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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valorization

with the hope of crossing the critical threshold of the process of accumulation by self-sustaining valorisation

on capital

—p.19 Making Others Do Something (1) by Frédéric Lordon
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the real chains are our affects and desires

[...] Spinoza proposes an altogether different mechanism of alienation: the real chains are those of our affects and desires. There is no such thing as voluntary servitude. There is only passionate servitude. That, however, is universal.

—p.17 Making Others Do Something (1) by Frédéric Lordon
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in toto

Subjectivist-individualist thought, built around the idea of free will as sovereign self-control, predictably rejects this verdict of radical heteronomy in toto and to its last breath.

—p.17 Making Others Do Something (1) by Frédéric Lordon
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within the structures of radical material heteronomy

[...] It is the social structures, in the case of employment, those of the capitalist relations of production, that configure desires and predetermine the strategies for attaining them. Within the structures of radical material heteronomy, the desire for persevering biologically-materially is narro…

—p.14 Making Others Do Something (1) by Frédéric Lordon
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aporia

all the aporiae of the subjectivist metaphysics that feed contemporary individualistic thinking

—p.13 Making Others Do Something (1) by Frédéric Lordon
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