Dec 4, 2016
the object resists
“In the meantime, every approach to Marx’s example [of the commodity’s impossible speech] must move through the ongoing event that precipitates it, the real event of the commodity’s speech, itself broken by the irreducible materiality—the broken and irreducible maternity—of the commodity’s scream. Imagine a recording of the (real) example that anticipates the (impossible) example; imagine that recording as the graphic reproduction of a scene of instruction, one always already cut by its own repression; imagine what cuts and anticipates Marx, remembering that the object resists, the commodity shrieks, the audience participates.”
- Fred Moten, In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition