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).

[...] In this new configuration, even the paintings of classics like Van Gogh or Picasso regain a new lustre; not that of their origins, but rather the novelty of widely advertised brand names.

on postmodernity, and how even museums--ordinarily symbolic of high art--have become mass entertainment

you could characterise this whole passage as snobby or elitist but he does have a good point (there's probably a DFW tie-in here as well: lots of people think of DFW as more of a shibboleth than as a real author)

—p.109 Aesthetics of Singularity (101) by Fredric Jameson 6 years, 7 months ago