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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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7 years, 11 months ago

how good it feels to believe him

[...] Why do these crowds from Detroit to Charleston cheer so wildly at a simple promise not to lie?

Well, it’s obvious why. When McCain says it, the people are cheering not for him so much as for how good it feels to believe him. They’re cheering the loosening of a weird sort of knot in the ele…

—p.188 Consider the Lobster and Other Essays Up, Simba (156) by David Foster Wallace
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try to imagine it was you inspo/misc

[...] take a second or two to do some creative visualization and imagine the moment between John McCain’s first getting offered early release and his turning it down. Try to imagine it was you. Imagine how loudly your most basic, primal self-interest would cry out to you in that moment, and all the…

—p.165 Up, Simba (156) by David Foster Wallace
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Empire was none of their business

This is popular colonialism and it developed, he states, independently of the ‘organized enthusiasm of the upper classes’. It had to: a central claim of the book is that the official agencies of colonial knowledge and the organized colonial movement had no interest in including the lower classes in…

—p.156 New Left Review 82 Projecting Empire (153) by Esther Leslie
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the thought that we might be the rubble

[...] The thought that we might be the rubble implies that history will advance without us, protagonized by other subjects; we would be left in the position of Kafka, who maintained that there was ‘plenty of hope—but not for us’. Would this seeming abandonment of agency really be desirable? Steyerl…

—p.141 The Material Image (136) by Tony Wood
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the role of art in neoliberalism

Although Steyerl’s arguments in some cases unfold at a relatively abstract level, several of the essays address more directly the character of the art world itself, and its role in beautifying neoliberal capitalism. ‘Contemporary art feeds on the crumbs of a massive and widespread redistribution of…

—p.138 The Material Image (136) by Tony Wood