GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Capital, Volume I, Npr, Commodity Fetishism
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12: global commodities: the i-thing (cid:863)the goods we buy are the end of an elaborately choreographed transnational odyssey. These objects are part of an economy whose tendrils reach over further outward, linking, integrating and transforming both far-flu(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d (cid:374)ear(cid:271)y pla(cid:272)es. (cid:863) martin kenney. To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour. Different parts made in different places in the world. It"s i(cid:373)po(cid:396)ta(cid:374)t to (cid:396)ealize geog(cid:396)aphy is i(cid:374) you(cid:396) ha(cid:374)d. It"s i(cid:373)po(cid:396)ta(cid:374)t to k(cid:374)o(cid:449) a(cid:271)out the li(cid:448)es of those (cid:449)ho (cid:373)ake the (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)odities you (cid:272)o(cid:374)su(cid:373)e. Ia(cid:374) cook: it"s more tha(cid:374) just what it is. Ian cook claims to unsettle you in this writing in order to mirror what you have to do to unsettle commodities (to show they are more than what they are. A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing and easily understood.
