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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tear down the true wall

[...] If one were to open the borders, the first to rebel would be the local working classes. It is thus becoming clear that the solution is not ‘tear down the walls and let them all in’, the easy empty demand of soft-hearted liberal ‘radicals’. The only true solution is to tear down the true wall,…

—p.88 Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile: (63) by Slavoj Žižek
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dialectic

We are not dealing now with ‘globalisation’ as an unfinished project’ but with a true ‘dialectics of globalisation’: the segregation of the people is the reality of economic globalisation.

on refugees in Europe

—p.87 Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile: (63) by Slavoj Žižek
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lying in the guise of the truth

[...] Jacques Lacan claimed that, even if the patient’s wife really is sleeping around with other men, the patient’s jealousy is still to be treated as a pathological condition. In a homologous way, even if rich Jews in the Germany of the early 1930s ‘really’ exploited German workers, seduced their…

—p.84 Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile: (63) by Slavoj Žižek
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no wonder they exploded

How are we to read this social breakdown? The first reaction is the standard conservative one. The events in New Orleans confirm yet again how fragile social order is, how we need strict law enforcement and ethical pressure to prevent the explosion of violent passions. Human nature is naturally evi…

—p.81 Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile: (63) by Slavoj Žižek