GENDER 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Natural Capital, Biopower, Social Capital
22 Jan 2018
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A service, product, something that may be in demand. Reduction of value - supply is regulated and produced directly for the market. "the problem with markets is that they reduce everything--including human beings, their labor, and their reproductive capacity--to the status of commodities that can be bought, sold, traded, and stolen" Daca recipients reduced to their labor and stripped of their humanity. Commodity fetishism illusion that value comes from the commodity itself erases the social relation behind it illusions in capitalist society money. Money is not valuable itself - a social illusion profit as springing from production rather than through unequal relation between capital and forms of labor. Marx - criticize how commodities are seen as valuable. Value of a computer is that someone is willing to pay for it. Marx says this is an illusion, the value comes from it because people worked on it=labor. Think of the disciplinary power behind the discourse of:
