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).

a thing that is very old or old-fashioned (i.e., archaic)

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archaisms



I suppose these fantasy archaisms and interstellar revelations are no different

Anaesthetic Ideology (The Meaning of Life, Part III) (225) by Mark Greif
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6 years, 11 months ago


This reliance on already-existing forms of identification - all those nationalisms and religions, with any number of archaisms ready to crawl out of the crypt - is what postmodernism has been.

—p.615 Cybergothic vs. Steampunk (613) by Mark Fisher
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5 years, 3 months ago


That prose, in spite of or because of its archaisms, is good prose: exact, clear, powerful.

—p.90 On Fantasy and Science Fiction (31) by Ursula K. Le Guin
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4 years, 4 months ago


the irruption of archaisms in the West's postmodern societies

—p.113 Politics in the age of resentment: the dark legacy of the Enlightenment (104) by Pankaj Mishra
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6 years, 2 months ago