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).

workerism: a political theory that emphasizes the importance of, or glorifies, the working class

27

Both in theory and in political practice the 'operaismo' (workerism) of the 1960s and 70s

—p.27 Introduction (1) by Armen Avanessian, Robin Mackay
notable
6 years, 6 months ago

Both in theory and in political practice the 'operaismo' (workerism) of the 1960s and 70s

—p.27 Introduction (1) by Armen Avanessian, Robin Mackay
notable
6 years, 6 months ago

(Greek mythology) the personification of death

31

rethinks the inhuman futural feedback process through which it conducts human history not as a thanatropic compulsion but as social participation in the progressive and self-cultivating anastrophism of in/humanity

—p.31 Introduction (1) by Armen Avanessian, Robin Mackay
notable
6 years, 6 months ago

rethinks the inhuman futural feedback process through which it conducts human history not as a thanatropic compulsion but as social participation in the progressive and self-cultivating anastrophism of in/humanity

—p.31 Introduction (1) by Armen Avanessian, Robin Mackay
notable
6 years, 6 months ago

(mathematics) An isotropic scaling transformation of an affine space with a single fixed point

33

generating paths to an outside that does not conform to the infinite homothetism of 'more of the same'

not entirely sure

—p.33 Introduction (1) by Armen Avanessian, Robin Mackay
uncertain
6 years, 6 months ago

generating paths to an outside that does not conform to the infinite homothetism of 'more of the same'

not entirely sure

—p.33 Introduction (1) by Armen Avanessian, Robin Mackay
uncertain
6 years, 6 months ago

(adjective) requiring immediate aid or action / (adjective) requiring or calling for much; demanding

38

Machine production follows directly from, maximally effects, and enters into synergy with capital's exigency to reduce the need for human labour and to continually increase levels of production.

—p.38 Introduction (1) by Armen Avanessian, Robin Mackay
notable
6 years, 6 months ago

Machine production follows directly from, maximally effects, and enters into synergy with capital's exigency to reduce the need for human labour and to continually increase levels of production.

—p.38 Introduction (1) by Armen Avanessian, Robin Mackay
notable
6 years, 6 months ago

spread or branch out

39

Man no longer has a direct connection to production, but one that is mediated by a ramified, accumulated objective social apparatus

—p.39 Introduction (1) by Armen Avanessian, Robin Mackay
notable
6 years, 6 months ago

Man no longer has a direct connection to production, but one that is mediated by a ramified, accumulated objective social apparatus

—p.39 Introduction (1) by Armen Avanessian, Robin Mackay
notable
6 years, 6 months ago

(adjective) of little or no consequence; trifling inconsequential / (adjective) having no force; inoperative

103

by making these rights nugatory on the one hand and by cutting away the spiritual foundations of them on the other hand

—p.103 The Machine Process and the Natural Decay of the Business Enterprise (91) by Thorstein Veblen
confirm
6 years, 6 months ago

by making these rights nugatory on the one hand and by cutting away the spiritual foundations of them on the other hand

—p.103 The Machine Process and the Natural Decay of the Business Enterprise (91) by Thorstein Veblen
confirm
6 years, 6 months ago

an ancient religious movement that has to do with duality? "an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness"

146

capitalism itself was described in a Manichean manner: on one side the positive pole, the proletariat, the liberating class; on the other side the positive pole, capital

—p.146 Decline of the Capitalist Mode of Production or Decline of Humanity? (131) by Jacques Camatte
notable
6 years, 6 months ago

capitalism itself was described in a Manichean manner: on one side the positive pole, the proletariat, the liberating class; on the other side the positive pole, capital

—p.146 Decline of the Capitalist Mode of Production or Decline of Humanity? (131) by Jacques Camatte
notable
6 years, 6 months ago

a economic theory relating to the origin of capital (Adam Smith saw it as a peaceful process with natural imbalances in wealth distribution; Karl Marx saw it as a violent enclosure of the commons etc etc)

151

So true is it that primitive accumulation is not produced just once at the dawn of capitalism, but is continually reproducing itself.

—p.151 The Civilized Capitalist Machine (147) by Félix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze
notable
6 years, 6 months ago

So true is it that primitive accumulation is not produced just once at the dawn of capitalism, but is continually reproducing itself.

—p.151 The Civilized Capitalist Machine (147) by Félix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze
notable
6 years, 6 months ago

(noun) a usually rhetorical break in the flow of sound in the middle of a line of verse / (noun) a break in the flow of sound in a verse caused by the ending of a word within a foot / (noun) break interruption / (noun) a pause marking a rhythmic point of division in a melody

165

the brief collective phantasm of romanticism following the caesura of modernity

—p.165 Energumen Capitalism (163) by Jean-François Lyotard
notable
6 years, 6 months ago

the brief collective phantasm of romanticism following the caesura of modernity

—p.165 Energumen Capitalism (163) by Jean-François Lyotard
notable
6 years, 6 months ago

(verb) to wander or stray from a course or subject; diverge digress

167

the time is coming to serve and to encourage their errant divagation over all the surfaces

weird word

—p.167 Energumen Capitalism (163) by Jean-François Lyotard
confirm
6 years, 6 months ago

the time is coming to serve and to encourage their errant divagation over all the surfaces

weird word

—p.167 Energumen Capitalism (163) by Jean-François Lyotard
confirm
6 years, 6 months ago