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

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neoliberalism

In terms of both quantitative (share of GDP, financial rate of return) and qualitative capture (mobilisation of employees), neoliberal capitalism tips into the delirium of the unlimited

—p.39 Making Others Do Something (1) by Frédéric Lordon
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Marxian

The passionate temperament of employment, now richer than both the Marxian thesis of naked exploitation and its continuation in the sociology of Fordist consumption implicitly assumed

—p.51 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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liquefaction

What the capitalist master-desire in the neoliberal era seeks is nothing less than the liquefaction of labour-power, making the overall size of the workforce into something fluid, reversible, and as easily adjustable as the components of a portfolio of financial assets, with the inevitable effect of creating a world of extreme uncertainty for enlistees.

never seen it used in an economic context before but it kind of makes sense

—p.47 Making Others Do Something (1) by Frédéric Lordon
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edifying

commonplace edifying maxims – for example, top bosses who claim to be ‘as demanding of others as of themselves’, thus transmuting the projections of their own desire, made master-desire, into a moral virtue, and expressing in a blind adage of conative egocentricity the wish that others make that desire fully their own.

—p.36 Making Others Do Something (1) by Frédéric Lordon
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clinamen

The angle α is the clinamen of the individual conatus, its spontaneous misalignment relative to the ends of the enterprise: α thus expresses the persistent heterogeneity of the conatus relative to the master-desire

he has a diagram of the vectors on this page lol

—p.35 Making Others Do Something (1) by Frédéric Lordon
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