How Commodities Are Artificial Life

Marx’s commodity fetish wasn’t necrophilia

This is Part 2 of a reading of Marx’s Capital (covering Chapter 1). These are basically my hallucinogenic notes. Part 1 is here: How Marx’s Capital Is About AI.

I lived through the great Nokian Explosion, 0.00002 million years ago. Cell phones were everywhere, in every form. They flipped, they had…