Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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usufruct

It’s associated with the shared use or enjoyment of something, with a common relation to property along the lines of a right of use, usufruct

—p.56 by Jodi Dean
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acedia

a process of empathy whose origin is the indolence of the heart, acedia, which despairs of grasping and holding the genuine historical image as it flares up briefly.

—p.256 Theses on the Philosophy of History (253) by Walter Benjamin
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paratactic

Suffice it to recall the endless succession of "soit que . . : ," by means of which an action is shown in an exhaustive, depressing way in the light of the countless motives upon which it may have been based. And yet these paratactic sequences reveal the point at which weakness and genius coincide in Proust

i forgot

—p.213 The Image of Proust (201) by Walter Benjamin
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frangible

By integrating the social process with the development of a person, it bestows the most frangible justification on the order determining it

so like fragile?

—p.88 The Storyteller (83) by Walter Benjamin
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banausic

There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation. But despite the claims of sentimental artists, these two are not banausic.

like: banal?

—p.77 The Task of the Translator (69) by Walter Benjamin
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