Joshua Simon, Neo-Materialism, Part Three: The Language of Commodities:
“The commodity entails not only the subjectivity of the people who
took part in designing, making, delivering, and selling it, but also of those
who use, clean, dismantle, and scavenge it. The commodity is the form in which
things come to be in this world. Beyond any concept of alienation in relation
to labor, we can see that the commodity’s material is constituted by our very
social relations. This composition gives the commodity a subjectivity that is
not particular to any one of us, but is rather one in which we all participate
in forming.“
(Via e-flux journal :: rss.)