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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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semiotics

the Soviet system was an 'empire of signs', in which even the Nomenklatura themselves--including Stalin and Molotov--were engaged in interpreting a complex series of social semiotic signs

—p.50 All that is solid melts into PR: Market Stalinism and bureaucratic anti-production (39) by Mark Fisher
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nomenklatura

the Soviet system was an 'empire of signs', in which even the Nomenklatura themselves--including Stalin and Molotov--were engaged in interpreting a complex series of social semiotic signs

—p.50 All that is solid melts into PR: Market Stalinism and bureaucratic anti-production (39) by Mark Fisher
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there is no longer an identifiable external enemy inspo/misc

[...] it was easy for the advocates of post-Fordist Capital to present themselves as the opponents of the status quo, bravely resisting an inertial organized labor 'pointlessly' invested in fruitless ideological antagonism which served the ends of union leaders and politicians, but did little to ad…

—p.34 October 6, 1979: 'Don't let yourself get attached to anything' (31) by Mark Fisher