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The beasts measure wealth not in terms of material possessions or abstract sums of money. The “dry world” might have all of that, but still remains poor. Wealth for them consists in time of leisure (“holidays”) that can be appropriated for the building of communal social relations intensely experienced during collective celebrations—and beautifully visualized by…
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It is only a “universal equivalent” to which all particular commodities can be related, that makes possible an adequate expression of value. In practice this universal equivalent is identical with the “money-form.” Warhol’s ambition, then, would seem to involve creating works of art that do not merely articulate the (unquestionably existing) fascination exerted by particular…
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Zombies are constitutively ignorant of the other’s intentions and will and anyway lousy contractual partners, which is why they represent the structural antithesis of the subject form—non-personifications of economic relations or personifications of non-economic relations, as it were. They allegorize the exclusion from the sphere of simple commodity circulation which is tendentially equivalent to the…
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It is necessary to keep in mind that popular representations of cowboys in particular and the American West in general should not be mistaken for accurate depictions of historical figures, places, and events. Instead, the popular West is a mythic space, which reveals as much about the culture that has produced such representations as it…
Marlon Lieber 