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).

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semiotics

attempts a fusion of semiotic, economic, and psychoanalytic systems

—p.20 Introduction: A Living Transaction (1) by Jeffrey Severs
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petitio principii

a textbook petitio principii

quoted from Oblivion

—p.17 Introduction: A Living Transaction (1) by David Foster Wallace
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axiology

My third and most important philosophical guidepost on value is axiology

Severs includes DFW's definition of axiology from Both Flesh and Not

—p.14 Introduction: A Living Transaction (1) by Jeffrey Severs
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ars poetica

in this essay that led him into the writing of Infinite Jest lies an allegorical ars poetica

—p.9 Introduction: A Living Transaction (1) by Jeffrey Severs
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I EXIST

[...] Wallace also argues that literary texts are ideally engaged with proving existence: Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress should have been titled "I EXIST", which Wallace says is the "signal that throbs under most voluntary writing--& all good writing" [...]

—p.7 Introduction: A Living Transaction (1) by Jeffrey Severs