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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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liberation short of offing the tyrant

But could there really be no liberation short of offing the tyrant? Is there not another species of emancipation in flights of the spirit, even if they change nothing in our material reality? The playing field of the imagination is infinite, after all. So even though humor forces us back into our h…

—p.122 The Point Issue 14 Punching Down (117) missing author
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humor is a meditation upon death

[...] Humor is a meditation upon death. It is by this difference that we are best able to understand the nature of a life lived in the comic mode. The fact that I will not live two hundred years, let alone forever, is what is preventing me from writing my gelastical magnum opus. It is also what mak…

—p.119 Punching Down (117) missing author
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a shift from divisible to indivisible

[...] Albert Hirschman also basically assumes that we are facing a shift from "divisible" to "indivisible" conflicts, whose peculiarity consists in the fact that the contested good--precisely consists in the fact that the contested good--precisely this "collective identity"--cannot be parceled out …

—p.120 Redistribution or Recognition? A Political-Philosophical Exchange Redistribution as Recognition: A Response to Nancy Fraser (110) by Axel Honneth
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nonreformist reforms

[...] nonreformist reforms seek to spark transformations in the status order--not only directly, by immediate institutional intervention, but also politically, by changing the terrain on which future struggles for recognition are waged. Thus, for recognition as for distribution, this approach repre…

—p.82 Social Justice in the Age of Identity Politics: Redistribution, Recognition, and Participation (7) by Nancy Fraser
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UBI as potentially transformative

[...] grants would guarantee a minimum standard of living to every citizen, regardless of labor force participation, while leaving intact the deep structure of capitalist property rights. Thus, in the abstract they appear to be affirmative. That appearance would jibe with reality, moreover in a neo…

—p.78 Social Justice in the Age of Identity Politics: Redistribution, Recognition, and Participation (7) by Nancy Fraser