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Wednesday, January 4, 2017

I Like This Line from This Essay I'm Proof-Reading

“In commodity fetishism, spoons and chickens don’t have agency: they become the hardware platform for capitalist software.”

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  1. Word.
    Derrida on the fetish as undecidable too -- the spoon and the chicken still arrive with all the energy that is at the same time denied.

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  2. The social hieroglyph goes eternally unspoken for the critters. Virtually eveything in your material world on earth can from harming an animal. Th chorus of ghosts screams and no humans ever hears. Actually I am very curious about alternative readings of the point in your sentence.

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    1. Tim writes about it. I hear it. You're not alone. It's the saddest thing. OOO works well for exploring the instrumentality of the chickens (et al)

      I have a colleague who rejects the word "imprinting" in his studies of birds. Relationships with others, with objects-- not imprinting, if imprinting is taken to be their stupidity about bonding

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