39 | Lukács: Social Totality and the Commodity Form
What's Left of Philosophy
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Is There a Commodity in Capitalist Societies?
I feel likeo, like critical theory land. The objection is usually that, like, ontologically speaking, it can't be commodities all the way down. I'd be interested to n what you think about that. Maybe the way to reconcile it is to saytatike, the commodity has a structuring function over everything, but it doesn't subsume everything without remainder right? Like it quantifies, and it seeks to quantify everything, but there's still a kind of qualitative element of life which isn't fully subsumable within that quantitative totality or makes sense. And i don't know if you would put it this way, but life is never entirely or fully subs
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