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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7 years, 6 months ago

immediately disintegrated in the void

[...] The male pole position being virtually unoccupied (since man has virtually disappeared), the feminists are in an enormous hurry to move into it, and they naturally fall into the trap that is the void of power itself. In the same way, political power being emptied of its substance, the Left ru…

—p.117 Fragments: Cool Memories III, 1990-1995 by Jean Baudrillard
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the fidelity of a woman you love

Regarding the fidelity of a woman you love and who loves you, no cause for worry. For either she is unreservedly faithful to you--or she is cheating on you. And in the latter case, given all you know of her--or think you know--it would be such an incredible betrayal, such a spiritual disillusionmen…

—p.106 by Jean Baudrillard
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we are marvellously protected

Cards, that virtual money, protect us from the vulgarity of cash. But money itself, that artefact of value, protects us from the vulgarity of the commodity. And the commodity, that artefact of desire, protects us from the vulgarity of human relations. In this way, we are marvellously protected.

—p.99 by Jean Baudrillard
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it is not an illusion which conceals reality

Cutting through the last umbilical cord that unites us to the real with your own teeth, while your nails dig into your memory in the absolute silence, and the flies endlessly violate our airspace.

It is not an illusion which conceals reality. It is reality which conceals the fact that there is n…

—p.85 by Jean Baudrillard
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make me save time by using a computer

Every effort to make me save time by using a computer is criminal. Making me save time--I who do not know what to do with it [...] In any event, time and space are naturally useless, and time saved is as serious as blood spilt.

—p.78 by Jean Baudrillard