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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bulwark

small Slavic nations were all looking towards Russia, the bulwark of reaction, for their liberation

not really sure what it means in this context

—p.165 Epignosis (143) by Slavoj Žižek
strange
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nomenklatura

the most dangerous place to be at the time of the terrible 1930s purges in the Soviet Union was at the top of the nomenklatura

—p.134 Prognosis (90) by Slavoj Žižek
notable
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eschatology

rejection of the eschatological notion of the Future which Marxism inherited from the Christian tradition

—p.128 Prognosis (90) by Slavoj Žižek
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elucubration

the pure lawless Real resists symbolic grasp, so that we should always be aware that our attempts to conceptualize it are mere semblances, defensive elucubrations

—p.128 Prognosis (90) by Slavoj Žižek
uncertain
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neoliberalism

there is no analytic value in blaming neoliberalism for our particular woes: today's world order is a concrete totality within which specific situations ask for specific acts

in other words, maybe neoliberalism was inevitable (as a stage we must pass through) and now all we can do is try to move past it?

—p.111 Prognosis (90) by Slavoj Žižek
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