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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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potlatch

To assemble a full definition of debt, one would need to address philosophies of morality and justice and anthropologies of sacrifice and potlatch

—p.146 Chapter 6: The Magic of Debt; or, Reading Marx Like a Child (137) by Richard Dienst
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polysemous

Note that the German word for “debt” and “guilt” is the same: die Schuld. Not only Nietzsche but also Benjamin probed this polysemy on several occasions.

Walter Benjamin

—p.145 Chapter 6: The Magic of Debt; or, Reading Marx Like a Child (137) by Richard Dienst
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expropriation

the toys are recognizably like commodities, expropriated from the one who makes them and sent out to travel a long (but never infinite) chain of transactions before they can be allowed to resume their unremarkable existence as objects of use or enjoyment

on a story that Karl Marx would tell his daughter Eleanor about a toy shop

—p.140 Chapter 6: The Magic of Debt; or, Reading Marx Like a Child (137) by Richard Dienst
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trenchant

Marx actually admired capitalism in some ways, which means that he might have been right about a few things; meanwhile, his trenchant criticisms of it will be treated as the quaintly perceptive observations of an awkward crank

about mainstream publications occasionally "rediscovering" Karl Marx

—p.137 Chapter 6: The Magic of Debt; or, Reading Marx Like a Child (137) by Richard Dienst
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immanence

de Certeau’s analysis of the city presents itself as both an extension of Foucault’s critique of totalizing enclosure and as its immanent critique

—p.123 Chapter 5: Spaces of Indebtedness (119) by Richard Dienst
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