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

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hew

They were hewing out of the mountain of white supremacy the stone of their individuality.

—p.85 Down At The Cross (19) by James Baldwin
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truculent

a very definite tendency to sound truculent because you want no one to think you are soft

—p.13 My Dungeon Shook (11) by James Baldwin
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rarefied

In which some rarefied notion of ‘civility’ is prized above all else

Rhetoric, Responsibility, & the Problem of the Political: Some thoughts after reading Andrew O’Hagan on Grenfell Tower missing author
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pusillanimity

the book’s pusillanimous conclusion that it should be possible to ‘ameliorate’ the condition of workers ‘without calling into question the productivist dynamic’ contrasted glaringly with the force of its anterior critique

on Askenazy's 2004 book Les Désordres du travail

—p.157 Beyond Redistribution (151) by John Grahl
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coeval

they are coeval with and thus shaped by that market

—p.145 Artwork as Critique (141) by Zoe Sutherland
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