---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 2:08 PM Subject: How does reification ensure our wilful subordination to authority ? - Craig Gent To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, " [email protected]" <[email protected]>, GTM groupe monnaie <[email protected]> I personally propose the title can also be read this way : *" Monetization as Reified Political Control "* * * Paper via Academia ( and in attachment ) : http://www.academia.edu/4498786/How_does_reification_ensure_our_wilful_subor... ABSTRACT: Reification has been a problematic concept. It has been deployed across a range of areas, referring to the depersonalizing character of capitalist exchange as well as the dehumanized administrative model that made the Holocaust possible. It has been viewed both as a tool of the bourgeoisie waged against the workers, as well as a product of the Enlightenment, ultimately created by us. While the four key thinkers in this dissertation – Lukács, Adorno, Foucault and Honneth – have different perspectives on reification and its relation to truth and power, all agree it has implications for the way we relate to each other socially in everyday life and for our subjection within society. This dissertation aims to specify what we mean by reification, and will seek to show how as a product of our will to truth, we have privileged positivist rationality and subsequently become detached from the antecedent stance of qualitative recognition. I will argue that it is this process of ‘forgetting’ which has made possible our wilful subordination in disciplinary society. -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/