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

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fillip

it was the collapse of the Eastern bloc in 1989 that gave the decisive fillip to Winkler’s career

—p.126 Metaphysicking the West (125) by Dylan Riley
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synecdoche

He was fond of an autobiographical synecdoche: when interviewed, he said that an important thread running through his work began with a book review he found in his uncle Szolem’s wastepaper basket

hm interesting use, not entirely sure how that works

—p.118 Counterperformativity (97) by Alice Bamford, Donald MacKenzie
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interstice

Options had been traded for centuries, but typically in only an informal, semi-organized way—in the interstices or on the peripheries of mainstream financial markets

—p.102 Counterperformativity (97) by Alice Bamford, Donald MacKenzie
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fiat

For traders to use a model such as Black–Scholes is not like a medieval monarch making someone an outlaw by saying that they are an outlaw: no mathematical fiat.

why is this sentence so pretty!!!

—p.101 Counterperformativity (97) by Alice Bamford, Donald MacKenzie
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bricolage

Mathematical models are, after all, bricolage constructions inscribed with curdled utopias

pretty use

—p.99 Counterperformativity (97) by Alice Bamford, Donald MacKenzie
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