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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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(verb) uproot / (verb) to remove or separate from a native environment or culture / (verb) to remove the racial or ethnic characteristics or influences from

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deracination
deracinated



this essentially deracinated city has become the world capital of an immense Culture Industry, which since the 1920s has imported myriads of the most talented writers, filmmakers, artists and visionaries

—p.14 Sunshine or Noir? (13) by Mike Davis
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1 year, 10 months ago


Deracinated, lonely, struggling to make his philosophy understood in a language that he was just mastering, Adorno took succour

—p.195 Part III: The 1930s (123) by Stuart Jeffries
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6 years, 7 months ago


what John Kenneth Galbraith characterized as the “New Class”—deracinated, upwardly mobile professionals, technocrats, midlevel “financial engineers,” new-media makers, and liberal academics

—p.208 The Limousine Liberal’s Family Tree (193) by Steve Fraser
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2 years, 11 months ago


eventually, the thorough deracination of the entire Mediterranean world

not really sure which usage of the word is relevant here tbh

—p.75 The Abolitionist—II (69) by Gopal Balakrishnan
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6 years, 7 months ago


populist rage burns through the deracinated industrial centers of the global north as liberal urbanites concentrate in increasingly isolated, privatized, and financialized city-centers

—p.100 The Century of Spin (92) missing author
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4 years, 8 months ago


deracinated escapees from an ancient European empire

—p.98 Aleksander Hemon (89) by James Wood
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6 years, 7 months ago


in a society as deracinated and stripped of tradition and continuity

—p.92 Specially Marked Packages (91) by Christopher Sorrentino
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6 years, 6 months ago