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, 10 months ago

you are not the corporation inspo/anti-capitalism

[...] These were actual living humans—I keep coming back to this—not only adopting but insisting upon the priority of a monstrous legal construct designed for the express purpose of annihilating all concerns but its own profit.

I feel like I am not doing a great job of capturing, in words, the d…

The Concourse The Corporation Does Not Always Have To Win missing author
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philosophy's relativists

So far I have been speaking of 'we so-called relativists' and of 'we anti-Platonists'. But now I need to become more specific and name names. As I said at the outset, the group of philosophers I have in mind includes a tradition of post-Nietzsche an European philosophy and also a tradition of post-…

—p.xix Philosophy and Social Hope Introduction (xvi) by Richard M. Rorty
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a high blue film of heartfelt pain

[...] eyes yolked with a high blue film of heartfelt pain, open and staring at the bedroom's skylight through Duverger's narrow fingers [...]

—p.118 Girl with Curious Hair Lyndon (75) by David Foster Wallace
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this SHRDLU in the cosmic ad copy archive/silicon-jest

[...] He represents the Product. Is Ronald McDonald. Professionally. This son, this sty on the cosmic eyelid, this SHRDLU in the cosmic ad copy, represents the world's community restaurant.

—p.246 Westward the course of empire takes its way (231) by David Foster Wallace
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returned sometime later with a gun archive/silicon-jest project/panopticon

Under the sign erected every May above the outer highway reading IT'S SPRING, THINK FARM SAFETY and through the north ingress with its own defaced name and signs addressed to soliciting and speed and universal glyph for children at play [...] and then hard left along the length of a speed bump into…

—p.55 The Pale King §8 (55) by David Foster Wallace