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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 secular base

Essentially Marx tells us that while Feuerbach has noted the symptoms of a deeper malaise, he has done nothing to understand that malaise itself. The invention of religion was not simply an unfortunate mistake, but a response to the miseries of life on earth. Removing the opium leaves us only with …

—p.20 Why Read Marx Today? Early Writings (13) by Jonathan Wolff
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unemployment deserves another name today archive/so478

Unemployment, that more or less well-calculated deregulation of a new market, new technologies, new worldwide competitiveness, would no doubt, like labor or production, deserve another name today. [...] The function of social inactivity, of non-work or of underemployment is entering into a new era.…

—p.100 Specters of Marx Wears and Tears (Tableau of an ageless world) (96) by Jacques Derrida
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platform imperialism archive/dissertation archive/mc433

The dominant positions of several social media, including Facebook and Google have been considered as clear examples of platform imperialism. While these sites can offer participants entertainment and a way to socialize, the social relations present on a site like Facebook can obscure economic rela…

—p.337 Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism The Construction of Platform Imperialism in the Globalisation Era (322) by Dal Yong Jin
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transcending the limitations of mass media archive/mc433

SNS offer a transcendence of these limitations, allowing the extension and intensification of exploitation to go beyond the limits that the mass media set. The extension of exploitation is achieved by having users spend more time on SNS. [...]

—p.194 How Less Alienation Creates More Exploitation? Audience Labour on Social Network Sites (180) by Eran Fisher
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the disadvantages of being outside Facebook archive/dissertation archive/mc433

[...] It is not a direct forced separation, but an indirect one. The indirect forcing factors are basically the disadvantages that you might experience when being outside a network platform such as Facebook, for example the loss of job-opportunities, personal connections, social relations, and othe…

—p.125 The Relevance of Marx’s Theory of Primitive Accumulation for Media and Communication Research (105) by Mattias Ekman