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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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the spirits are already negated

[...] Division of labour and reification are taken to the extreme: body and soul severed in a kind of perennial vivisection. The soul is to shake the dust off its feet and in brighter regions forthwith resume its fervent activity at the exact point where it was interrupted. In this declaration of …

—p.177 The Stars Down to Earth Theses Against Occultism (172) by Theodor W. Adorno
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consciousness famished for truth

[...] consciousness famished for truth imagines it is grasping a dimly present knowledge diligently denied to it by official progress in all its forms. It is the knowledge that society, by virtually excluding the possibility of spon- taneous change, is gravitating towards total catastrophe. The rea…

—p.175 Theses Against Occultism (172) by Theodor W. Adorno
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he is dreaming yet cannot wake up

[...] In occultism, the mind groans under its own spell like someone in a nightmare, whose torment grows with the feeling that he is dreaming yet cannot wake up.

—p.174 Theses Against Occultism (172) by Theodor W. Adorno
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by saying abracadabra

[...] Occultism is a reflex-action to the subjectification of all meaning, the complement of reification. If, to the living, objective reality seems deaf as never before, they try to elicit meaning from it by saying abracadabra [...]

—p.174 Theses Against Occultism (172) by Theodor W. Adorno
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a world congealed into products

[...] The occultist draws the ultimate conclusion from the fetish-character of commodities: menacingly objectified labor assails him on all sides from demonically grimacing objects. What has been forgotten in a world congealed into products, the fact that it has been produced by men, is split off a…

—p.173 Theses Against Occultism (172) by Theodor W. Adorno