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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topoi

this latter emerging as a topos in Chinese television films set in Dafen

—p.146 Molto adagio – Andante: (119) by Slavoj Žižek
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misprision

Wong’s virtuosity in tracking multiple levels of misprision lies precisely in the extent to which she succeeds in arousing scepticism

—p.145 Molto adagio – Andante: (119) by Slavoj Žižek
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rarefied

Wong is able to follow the implications of her research into the more rarefied realms of cultural theory and philosophical aesthetics

it's a nice word whose definition I've never actually looked up

—p.142 Molto adagio – Andante: (119) by Slavoj Žižek
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dialectic

questions about the dialectic between ‘original’ and ‘reproduction’ that have been unavoidable since Marcel Duchamp and Walter Benjamin

—p.142 Molto adagio – Andante: (119) by Slavoj Žižek
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master signifier

Alain Badiou develops the notion of ‘atonal’ worlds – monde atone – which lack the intervention of a Master-Signifier to impose meaningful order onto the confused multiplicity of reality.

—p.29 Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo: (8) by Slavoj Žižek
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