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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anamorphic

The plane which hit the World Trade Center tower could literally be understood as the ultimate Hitchcockian blot, the anamorphic stain which denaturalised the idyllic New York landscape

—p.154 Allegro: (151) by Slavoj Žižek
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teleological

Is there a whole which can teleologically justify and thus redeem or sublate an event such as the Holocaust?

—p.153 Allegro: (151) by Slavoj Žižek
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the ground floor in the US vs Europe

[...] Perhaps, Nip/Tuck being an American series, this excess can be accounted for in the terms of the difference between Europe and the US. In Europe, the ground floor in a building is counted as 0, so that the floor above it is the first floor, while in the US, the first floor is at street level.…

—p.139 Molto adagio – Andante: (119) by Slavoj Žižek
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regimes of mercy

[...] totalitarian regimes are by definition regimes of mercy: they tolerate violations of the law, since, in the way they frame social life, violating the law, bribing and cheating, are conditions of survival.

—p.135 Molto adagio – Andante: (119) by Slavoj Žižek