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February 6, 2007
From David Cox's article Lens of Images
If desire is expressed through the commodity, and the commodity is that which is supposed to stand in for desire, to desire an end to commodity society is the desire to embrace that which consumer society deems no longer useful or valuable. Alongside this is the desire to re-inscribe certain specific things with new and unauthorised types of cult value. The culture hacker collects things which seem to have no value. She makes of the world around her a quilt of emblems of her own desire. She anticipates a world in which control and governance have shifted away from the surrogate mercantile type of economy to an economy of desire itself.
Cox is a film maker and academic at Griffith.
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If you are researching commodities, you can access Wall Street Journal, zacks, mornignstar etc for free with a netpass from: http://news.congoo.com
Andrew Tobias blogged about this last week, I thought it was a great tip!