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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.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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not wasted on mile-high skyscrapers

Kyoto-type accords and carbon markets are designed—almost as analogues to Keynesian “pump-priming”—to bridge the shortfall between spontaneous decarbonization and the emissions targets required by each scenario. Although the IPCC never spells it out, its mitigation targets necessarily presume that …

—p.206 Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx's Lost Theory Who Will Build the Ark? (201) by Mike Davis
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quondam

After a complicated choreography of alliances and conspiracies, Napoleon’s quondam nephew Louis Bonaparte was elected president by a rural majority

—p.168 Marx’s Lost Theory: The Politics of Nationalism in 1848 (155) by Mike Davis
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seeing its future butterfly

There is a legend about a certain species of caterpillar that can only cross the threshold of metamorphosis by seeing its future butterfly. Proletarian subjectivity does not evolve by incremental steps but requires non-linear leaps, especially moral self-recognition through solidarity with the stru…

—p.146 Old Gods, New Enigmas: Notes on Revolutionary Agency (1) by Mike Davis