Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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this invalidates the caricature project/dystopian-fiction

[...] When Brecht, to take an example, devised a kind of childish shorthand to try and crystallize out the essence of Fascism in terms of a sort of gangsterism, he made his 'resistible' dictator, Arturo Ui, the head of an imaginary and apocryphal Cauliflower Trust, instead of the most powerful econ…

—p.157 Aesthetics and Politics Reconciliation under Duress (151) by Theodor W. Adorno
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the destruction of reason

[...] It was doubtless his book The Destruction of Reason which revealed most clearly the destruction of Lukács' own. [...]

—p.152 Reconciliation under Duress (151) by Theodor W. Adorno
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you have done violence to yourself

This, I think, brings me to the centre of my criticism. The impression which your entire study conveys--and not only on me and my arcades orthodoxy--is that you have done violence to yourself. Your solidarity with the Institute [of Social Research], which pleases no one more than myself, has induce…

—p.130 Letters to Walter Benjamin (110) by Theodor W. Adorno
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