Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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idoneity

the Church looks askance at excesses of zeal: the word for clerical normality, ‘idoneity’, designates the optimal point between necessary and excessive commitment

—p.102 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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inchoate

that intermediate historical phase of larval and inchoate individualism

—p.97 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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telos

Utterly without a telos, it is so vast and, crucially, so diffuse, so devoid of a centre

on the process of self-affection by society

—p.95 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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constructivism

who would deny the existence of constructivist projects of desire

the footnote after constructivist refers to Hayek's "The Persistence of Constructivism in Current Thought" in "Law, Legislation, and Liberty"

—p.94 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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