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).

Activity

You added a note
6 years, 8 months ago

ostensibly independent thought

[...] It is precisely the critical element that is wanting in ostensibly independent thought. Insistence on the cosmic secret hidden beneath the outer shell, in reverently omitting to establish the relation between the two, often enough confirms by just this omission that the shell has its goods re…

—p.67 Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life Part One (21) by Theodor W. Adorno
You added a note
6 years, 8 months ago

ready-made enlightenment

[...] Ready-made enlightenment turns not only spontaneous reflection but also analytical insights - whose power equals the energy and suffering that it cost to gain them - into mass-produced articles, and the painful secrets of the individual history, which the orthodox method is already inclined t…

—p.65 Part One (21) by Theodor W. Adorno
You added a note
6 years, 8 months ago

part of the mechanism of domination

[...] It is part of the mechanism of domination to forbid recognition of the suffering it produces, and there is a straight line of development between the gospel of happiness ad the construction of camps of extermination so far off in Poland that each of our own countrymen can convince himself tha…

—p.63 Part One (21) by Theodor W. Adorno
You added a note
6 years, 8 months ago

who need the weaklings as their victims

[...] I the end the tough guys are the truly effeminate ones, who need the weaklings as their victims in order not to admit that they are like them. Totalitarianism and homosexuality belong together. I its downfall the subject negates everything which is not of its own kind. [...]

—p.46 Part One (21) by Theodor W. Adorno
You added a note
6 years, 8 months ago

which driver is not tempted

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men [...] which driver is not tempted, merely by the power of his engine, to wipe out the vermin of the street, pedestrians, children and cyclists? The movements machines demand of their users already have the violent, hard-hitting, un…

—p.40 Part One (21) by Theodor W. Adorno