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MEANIES_OF_PRODUCTION

                                                 June  8, 2014
                                                 July 23, 2014
I am about to complain about            
Marxist jargon in Guy Debord.
                                              Yes, stop the presses.  
                                              
                                                   (Alert the twits?):

   "Understood in its totality, the spectacle is
   both the result and the project of present means
   of production.  It is not a mere supplement or
   decoration added to the real world, it is the
   heart of this real society's unreality."

      Guy Debord, "The Society of the Spectacle" (1967)
      translated Ken Knabb, published by the
      Bureau of Public Secrets (2014),
      No copyright.


   I typically find the use of gratuitous
   Marxist jargon like "means of production"
   somewhat grating.  The thought could be
   rephrased in multiple ways without changing
   it's meaning much: the use of the jargon       Of course, consciously
   seems to function mainly as a declaration      avoiding the use of the term
   of allegiance to a particular culture.         "means of production" could
                                                  be taken as a similar
                                                  affectation, just directed
   More problematic, I think, is the phrase       toward the approval of a
   "the result and the project"-- the             different group.
   project?  The spectacle is the *goal*
   of the "means of production"?

   So then, a "means of production" is something
   that can have goals, and is apparently at
   least in part a social agency-- it is not
   merely a collection of factory tools (as was        It's important to use
   intended in the original Marxist context,           the right jargon, even
   correct?  "The workers should own the means         if you use it to mean
   of production.").                                   something else.




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