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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so long as there is a past, there is a future

New circumstances call for new theories, and new practices, but also for the cultivation of variants, alternatives, mutant strains. The revolts of 1989 may have flourished and withered, but are a seed stock for future movements. So long as there is a past, there is a future; so long as there is mem…

—p.243 A Hacker Manifesto Revolt (233) by McKenzie Wark
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ruling classes have no need for representation

And always, what escapes effective counter in this imaginary, enlightened state is the power of the ruling classes, which have no need for representation which dominate through owning and controlling production, including the production of representation. What calls to be hacked is not the represen…

—p.221 Representation (207) by McKenzie Wark
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the gift economy archive/dissertation

The vetoralist class contributes, unwittingly, to the development of the vectoral world within which the gift as the limit to property could return, but soon recognizes its error. As the vectoral economy, develops, less and less of it takes the form of a public space of open and free gift exchange,…

—p.206 Property (176) by McKenzie Wark
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the hacker class must hack class itself

That hackers as a class have an interest in information as private property can blind the hacker class to the dangers of too strong an insistence on the protection of that property. Any small gain the hacker gets from the privatization of information is compromised by the steady accumulation of the…

—p.196 Property (176) by McKenzie Wark
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society becomes a social factory archive/dissertation archive/mc433

Production produces not only the object as commodity, but also the subject who appears as its consumer, even though it is actually its producer. Under vectoralist rule, society becomes indeed a "social factory" which makes subjects as much as objects out of the transformation of nature into second …

—p.170 Production (157) by McKenzie Wark