that BC weed shouldn't be given to islanders.
Ian
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>
> The image of the cyborg entails a double process of objectification (of
> social relations) and anthropomorphic animation (of the resulting object).
> The analysis of this double process is already present in Marx's
> discussion
> of the commodity fetish. Thus the cyborg is in a way a redundant figure.
>
> Although fantastically constructed of body and machine, the
> actually-existing cyborg is constructed of labour power and *real* (as
> opposed to formal) domination of labour by capital. In its
> fictitious guise
> as human capital, the cyborg holds out an ambiguous promise of
> endowment "by
> attributing [the] mystical quality of interest-bearing capital to labour
> power itself."
>
> Marx noted two "disagreeably frustrating facts [to] mar this thoughtless
> conception." The labourer must work to obtain this interest and he cannot
> cash in the fictitious capital-value. A third disagreeable fact
> arises from
> the illiquidity of the worker's supposed capital: accelerated depreciation
> as a result of technical innovation. In six months, the
> six-million man may
> become a mere six-hundred thousand dollar man. Meanwhile, the original
> invoice price keeps showing up on his VISA bill.
>
> Accelerated depreciation lends a second meaning to the "redundancy" of the
> cyborg -- this time as reserve army of the un(der)employed. All of this
> doubling suggests that the cyborg is in fact a doppelganger, spectre of
> labour power and harbinger of its demise.
>
> The cyborg has nothing to add to the sandwichman, who was always already
> objectified, animated, redundant and in disguise.
>
> Tom Walker
> Sandwichman and Deconsultant
> Bowen Island, BC
>
