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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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apogee

Violent extraction reached its apogee under the Belgians, following the establishment of King Leopold II’s Congo Free State in 1885, gifted by the European powers assembled at the Congress of Berlin

—p.10 Africa's Leaky Giant (5) by Joe Trapido
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the implications of Africa’s labour shortage

[...] while for some European states internal and external conflicts were a laboratory for new and more productive forms of debt financing, African leaders tended to raise the capital needed to finance authority by selling the means of production, both human and ecological. Historians have located …

—p.9 Africa's Leaky Giant (5) by Joe Trapido
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master signifier

A basic feature of our postmodern world is that it tries to dispense with this agency of the ordering Master- Signifier: the complexity of the world needs to be as­ serted unconditionally. Every Master-Signifier meant to impose some order on it must be deconstructed, dis­ persed

—p.30 Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo: (8) by Slavoj Žižek
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amanuensis

When a hidden amanuensis is revealed under the aegis of Romanticism, it would seem an outrage—as if signing one’s name on something someone else has painted was fraudulent

quoting Winnie Won Ying Wong

—p.146 Molto adagio – Andante: (119) missing author
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