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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6 years, 11 months ago

trained to think of them as offices

The so-called “middle class” achieve their privileged access to consumption and security through education, in which they are obliged to invest a substantial part of their income, acquiring as their property a degree which represents the sorry fact that “the candidate can tolerate boredom and knows…

—p.51 A Hacker Manifesto Education (48) by McKenzie Wark
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6 years, 11 months ago

resent those who take the other topic/open-source

Hackers use their knowledge and their wits to maintain
their autonomy. Some take the money and run. (We must
live with our compromises.) Some refuse to compromise.
(We live as best we can.) All too often those of us who take
one of these paths resent those who take the other. One lot
resents t…

—p.5 Abstraction (1) by McKenzie Wark
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6 years, 11 months ago

platforms create a space

[...] platforms are technologies for the production of distribution itself, and if platform capitalism is about distribution, then it’s primarily about space. Platforms create a space in which specific forms of exchange can occur, and set the terms for those exchanges, all while extracting rents. T…

Real Life Code of Conduct by Daniel Joseph
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6 years, 11 months ago

platforms and gamification

[...] digital platforms internalize consumption as well, turning it into a form of subtly incentivized labor. Previous forms of labor organization depended on managerial overseers and workers who were rendered into “docile bodies” by, in Foucault’s account, social institutions like factories, priso…

Code of Conduct by Daniel Joseph
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6 years, 11 months ago

the empty calories of consumption inspo/anti-capitalism

It’s hard not to feel overwhelmed and cynical about the state of the digital economy right now. In return for what mainly amounts to small measures of consumer convenience, massive economic control has been ceded to platforms. But this consolidation has also changed the configuration of capital and…

Two-Faced by Daniel Joseph