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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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dialectic

This dialectic is Hegelian insofar as its paramount ideal is freedom

American vs Canadian idealism in IJ

—p.75 The Ideal Athlete: John Wayne in Infinite Jest (75) by Gregory Phipps
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pleonasm

Wallace refers to the Irish philosopher George Berkeley, whom he describes as "[...] a world-class pleonast [...]"

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—p.64 Consider Berkeley & Co.: Reading "Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way" (62) by Philip Coleman
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Jorge Luis Borges

Exhaustive critical commentary quickly tends towards annotation, which in turn tends ultimately towards a kind of Borgesian replicatin of the text in itself.

—p.62 Consider Berkeley & Co.: Reading "Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way" (62) by Philip Coleman
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postmodernism as the perfect partner for capitalism

[...] he birthing of postmodernity in late capitalism, the central argument of Jameson's theory, is clearly suggested here. He argues that postmodern suspicion of all cultural truth as mere elaborations of ideology makes it a perfect partner for capitalism (Postmodernism xxi), and in making Colli…

—p.54 David Foster Wallace: Westward with Fredric Jameson (49) missing author