Commodity

Summary

Dominique Pagani first stresses what the commodity keeps silent: it "does not say where it has been", and marketing, aimed at the sale, hides its real history1. He illustrates the detours of this path with the kilowatt, which passes through uranium from Niger. He recalls that a commodity has value only if it has a use for someone other than oneself, and he sees in the excrement the child grants the first commodity2. In the same session, he states that woman is the first commodity in history3. In 2016, discussing a mythical triangle, he makes Gabrielle the figure of the commodity and of the extortion of surplus value, as opposed to the historical woman, who is a producer of values4. He also sees in the king's wife the highest degree of commodity fetishism. Finally, he connects to Clouscard an indictment of the commodity that capital puts on display in response to desire5.

1. 1On Marx6 Oct 2018 · 6:04
2. 2The religion of money29 Sept 2019 · 15:56
3. 3The religion of money29 Sept 2019 · 45:02
4. 4What is to be done? 1/329 Jan 2016 · 19:34
5. 5Beware of misreadings! Clouscard and the ideology of desire, in homage to Le Précepteur14 Jan 2023 · 13:10

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