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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buttons force decisions into binary choices

[...] buttons force decisions into binary choices. There is no way of answering that one partially agrees, has not realized the consequences of accepting, or does not care, even though these would probably be franker answers from most users. Buttons are verbs that rule out tenses other than present…

—p.34 Software Studies: A Lexicon Button (31) missing author
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more finely exclude the poor from public services archive/mc433

[...] Since the massification of computing they have in some small ways also been able to construct themselves in relation to other forms of life. (In the sense that Ludwig Wittgenstein means when he says, "To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.") This self-sufficiency of software, in …

—p.6 Introduction (1) by Matthew Fuller
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this land of perpetual wind and drought

In this land of perpetual wind and drought, the silent humidity is an event when all the elements are merged in an indistinct, hepatic luminosity, instead of the clarity of light which usually prevails. All the winds have dropped, and the fire of the sky is shrouded i mist. You can no longer even h…

—p.142 Fragments: Cool Memories III, 1990-1995 by Jean Baudrillard
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all clothing should be reversible

Annoyed at having first to turn his pullovers the right side out every time he puts them on, he decides to turn them around as soon as he has taken them off. Surely, this is rational. But since this decision does not override the decision automatically to turn out his pullover when he puts it on, …

—p.123 by Jean Baudrillard
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the subject who takes himself for a subject

Hysteresia.

Those who continue to vote although there are no more candidates.

Those who continue to watch television when the broadcasters are on strike.

The phantom limb which goes on hurting even after it is amputated.

The man who is made redundant but goes regularly to his former pla…

—p.122 by Jean Baudrillard