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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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cathexis

he could perform cathexis

probably has a manif-specific meaning here but I assume the general idea is the same

—p.26 The Last Days of New Paris (1) by China Miéville
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agitprop

a grim collage, an agitprop warning.

—p.10 The Last Days of New Paris (1) by China Miéville
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cosset

They cosset the skeletons of the fallen.

—p.11 The Last Days of New Paris (1) by China Miéville
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terminal transformation in world-system theory archive/dissertation

Another estimate of the timing of future capitalist crisis is provided by world-system (W-S) theory. In earlier writing on the capitalist world-system, Wallerstein and colleagues presented a theoretical model of systemic long cycles. The core regions of the W-S in their expansive phase generate the…

—p.57 Does Capitalism Have a Future? The End of Middle-Class Work: No More Escapes (37) by Randall Collins
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the education system as hidden Keynesianism archive/dissertation archive/so478

Although educational credential inflation expands on false premises—the ideology that more education will produce more equality of opportunity, more high-tech economic performance, and more good jobs—it does provide some degree of solution to technological displacement of the middle class. Educatio…

—p.54 The End of Middle-Class Work: No More Escapes (37) by Randall Collins