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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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it simply presupposes that revolution is necessary inspo/criticism

Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the Hunger Games is the way it simply presupposes that revolution is necessary. The problems are logistical, not ethical, and the issue is simply how and when revolution can be made to happen, not if it should happen at all. Remember who the enemy is – a mes…

—p.228 K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher Remember Who the Enemy Is (227) by Mark Fisher
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ideology is a story more than it is a set of ideas inspo/criticism

I over-use the word ‘delirium’, but watching Catching Fire last week was a genuinely delirious experience. More than once I thought: How can I be watching this? How can this be allowed? One of the services Suzanne Collins has performed is to reveal the poverty, narrowness, and decadence of the ‘…

—p.227 Remember Who the Enemy Is (227) by Mark Fisher
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Margaret Atwood's grasp of neoliberalism inspo/criticism

The question that kept recurring when I was reading both Oryx And Crake and The Year Of The Flood was: why do these books not succeed in the way that The Handmaid's Tale did? If The Handmaid's Tale was an exemplary dystopia, it was because the novel made contact with the Imaginary-Real of…

—p.97 Atwood's Anti-Capitalism (93) by Mark Fisher
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Peace is a writer particularly attentive to sound inspo/criticism

In GB84 the result is more poetic than most poetry; it is, naturally, a poetry stripped of all lyricism, a harshly dissonant word-music. Peace is a writer particularly attentive to sound: the unsleeping vigilance of state power is signified by the 'Click, Click' of the telephone tap , the massed …

—p.81 A World of Dread and Fear (77) by Mark Fisher
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his functional, hers celebratory project/rink-story

But so by freshman Halloween Orin was regularly placing his punts inside the opponents' 20, spinning the ball off his cleats' laces so it either hit and squiggled outside the white sideline and out of play or else landed on its point and bounced straight up and seemed to squat in the air, hovering …

—p.294 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace