.5. The reproduction of death - selling of the biggest commodity

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The dominant commodity within contemporary modes of (re)production is the working body, sold to the managers if capital in order to survive. It gets set with an installment plan on slow suicide, with the thankful duty of supplying the planetry work machine with the desire it depends on.

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In order, however, to use the human body as a desiring machine in this particular fashion, as wear and tear, there is a need to reproduce it, to make sure that it is fit to produce and well off to consume. The reproduction of capital thus comes to comprise the reproduction of the body. THERE ARE SEVERAL TACTICS TO MAKE SURE THAT THE RECUPERATION AS WELL AS THE EXPANSION OF THE ABILITIES OF THE BODY IS SET. One example could be the radical expansion of the tertiary sector, which is this perspective not only is an expression of the expansion of the field of the commodity, but as well serves to expose new surfaces of the body to biopolitical power. And this power is productive. The subjects that it produces comes to know more and moe about the "good life". This, no doubt, is a good consumer. But the notion of "qualititive time" , born within capitalism, comes to be a sight of resistance when it becomes obvious that its potential is greater than a capital logic could allow. It comes as no surprise that "life", the subjectivity inscribed in the body via biopolitical power, has become the key sight of resistance for the working body since the beginning of the last century.

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Strategies have to be developed to embrace these new subjects. There has to be rewards, making sure that there is a promise of better times, after retirement, on the vacations or in the next life all depending on the faith that you have. making sure that we enjoy our pre-packaged guided outbursts into Disneyland or world cup soccer. All potential creators of further new subjects.

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ALIENATION, BOREDOM, DESPAIR, CULTURE, MONEY, CONSUMPTION, RECUPERATION, REIFICATION, DEATH, WAGE SLAVERY, SANITY, PRODUCTION, SACRIFICE, SUFFERING, POWER, SIMULATION, REPRESENTATION, SCHIZOPHRENIA AND SO ON.

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We have to consume, we have to make the economy flow. So in order for us to do that there has to be, apart from the basic necessities, desires to nourished, needs to be invented.But the latest inventions of the capital reign and company's latest advertising campaigns creates desires that capitalism might not be able to satisfy.The perpetual question is; will it expand or will it crack?

-The Black Mask sub-committee of Violence and passion.