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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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fomenting

That injustice foments violence is easy to accept; but this is where the difficulties begin.

—p.100 The Social State (99) by Alain Supiot
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positively living on sawdust

The Western social state was born at the end of the nineteenth century with the adoption of a new regime of responsibility for industrial accidents. A perspicacious witness of this legal turning-point was Franz Kafka, whose professional career was devoted to applying the law on industrial accidents…

—p.99 The Social State (99) by Alain Supiot
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a well-behaved Victorian child

[...] Cars are expensive after all, and many users aren’t very good at them: continuously anxious when driving, forced into a ‘radical dependence’ on the commercial service industry for maintenance and repairs. The autonomous car seems to hold out a promise of relief from personal involvement in an…

—p.86 Prototype Boulevard (85) by John Howe
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