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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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(adjective) keen, sharp / (adjective) vigorously effective and articulate / (adjective) caustic / (adjective) sharply perceptive; penetrating / (adjective) clear-cut, distinct

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trenchantly
trenchant



seems to capture a trenchant insurrectionary tableau

—p.109 Being Numerous (109) by Natasha Lennard
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4 years, 8 months ago


an undifferentiated mass of high-quality description and trenchant reflection that becomes both numbing and euphoric

—p.301 Deciderization 2007--A Special Report (299) by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 5 months ago


trenchantly criticize code art

—p.32 Opening Code (21) by Adrian Mackenzie
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6 years, 11 months ago


they wanted to destroy reality and themselves – and to rediscover, in the process, some sense of chivalry and nobility – and therefore they embraced the trenchant power of radical Islam.

—p.38 Notes on a Suicide (13) missing author
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5 years ago


One of Wang Hui’s most trenchant analyses is of the Tiananmen Square events

—p.132 The Nation-State: Persistence or Transcendence? (108) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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7 years, 2 months ago


A trenchant sense of culture, discipline and consciousness, of outright irreconcilability with the bourgeoisie

—p.26 The Prehistory of 1917 (5) by China Miéville
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7 years, 2 months ago


full of trenchant fury and vengeful promises

—p.19 Toward a materialist theory of revenge (16) by Max Haiven
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3 years, 10 months ago


Marx actually admired capitalism in some ways, which means that he might have been right about a few things; meanwhile, his trenchant criticisms of it will be treated as the quaintly perceptive observations of an awkward crank

about mainstream publications occasionally "rediscovering" Karl Marx

—p.137 Chapter 6: The Magic of Debt; or, Reading Marx Like a Child (137) by Richard Dienst
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7 years, 3 months ago


a trenchant indictment of our global economic system

—p.48 Two (33) by Jason Hickel
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7 years ago


its trenchant edge is somewhat blunted by the passage of time

—p.98 Specially Marked Packages (91) by Christopher Sorrentino
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7 years, 2 months ago


Norris points out that Rorty is less trenchant than Baudrillard

footnote 43. re: Rorty's opposition to the idea of truth

—p.83 The Book, the Broom, and the Ladder: Grounding Philosophy (65) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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7 years, 5 months ago


It is difficult to imagine a more trenchant political example of the weight of Lacan's distinction between the 'subject of the enunciated' and the 'subject of the enunciation'

—p.173 Epignosis (143) by Slavoj Žižek
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7 years, 2 months ago


the truly trenchant dimension of racism: the ‘being’ of blacks (as of whites or anyone else) is a socio-symbolic being

—p.62 Allegro moderato – Adagio: (34) by Slavoj Žižek
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7 years, 3 months ago