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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dialectic

in a properly dialectical twist, exploitation includes its own negation

those who produce AND those who are excluded from producing are all exploited

—p.23 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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semiotics

the semiotic square proposed by Jameson

workers/temporarily unemployed/permanently unemployable/formerly employed

—p.22 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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immanence

the world market is, with regard to its immanent dynamics, 'a space in which everyone has once been a productive labourer, and in which labour has everywhere begun to price itself out of the system'

on higher productivity resulting in more unemployment, which should be a blessing but is instead a curse (drift?)

he uses this word about a million times later on

—p.21 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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Frankfurt School

one would get a standard--not even traditional Marxist, but more specifically Western Marxist Frankfurt-School-style--critique of consumerism

on North Korean propaganda

—p.12 Introduction (1) by Slavoj Žižek
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jouissance

the stupid jouissance of rave music

on Gangnam Style

—p.9 Introduction (1) by Slavoj Žižek
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