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

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panoptic

the permanent panoptic vigilance of a bloated managerial strata determined to over-compensate in order to fully ensure it is meeting central government's demands

wow this is cold but beautiful

—p.163 Spectres of Marker and the Reality of the Third Way (161) by Mark Fisher
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meliorism

Wayne's language is not that of renewal-through-destruction (and here Schumpterian capitalism and fascism, in most other respects entirely opposed, find themselves in sympathy) but of philanthropic meliorism.

—p.145 Gothic Oedipus: Subjectivity and Capitalism in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins (139) by Mark Fisher
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syncretism

Nolan's revisiting of Batman is not a re-invention but a reclaiming of the myth, a grand syncresis that draws upon the whole history of the character.

—p.14 Foreword (13) by Simon Reynolds
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Manichaeism

fantasy's pathetically imbecilic manichean oppositions between Good and Evil, Us and (a foreign, contagious) Them are effective on the largest possible geopolitical stage.

—p.130 This Movie Doesn't Move Me (127) by Mark Fisher
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