Between Surplus Value and Surplus Enjoyment

26Mar08

One of the well known interpretations of Marx’s notion of surplus value is as the added value produced by labor that essentially haunts the object, that hangs about the object and acts as an index to the discrepancy of social relations between owners and workers. As a aura, surplus value represents the extra labor which is not accounted […]

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Bone White Clean

18Mar08

/1/ – Porus origins I devoted an early entry to the subject of Anorexia previously as well as one on Skeletal Ontology – here I am working out a possible synthesis of those arguments via my new found philosophical program – transcendental materialism. So to begin again: With Skeletal ontology, I discussed that while Nick […]

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