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

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in toto

Economic liberalism maintains and reproduces a moral discourse of righteousness and an institutional façade of human rights. Nevertheless, it must be rejected in toto because it necessarily also furthers a policy agenda of fear and social hierarchy

—p.166 ‘With or Without You’: Naturalising Migrants and the Never-Ending Tragedy of Liberalism (161) missing author
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reliquary

It can only be conserved, in a reliquary form, as a testimony of an experience related to history by an emotional link.

—p.147 Melancholy Images, from Left Wing Melancholia: Marxis, History and Memory (137) by Enzo Traverso
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writ large

It was as if his own feeling of impotence were writ large on the political scene everywhere.

—p.147 Melancholy Images, from Left Wing Melancholia: Marxis, History and Memory (137) by Edward W. Said
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