tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post4124202834968683900..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Masaccio's Tribute Money and the Triumph of CapitalUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-15599600876332678852014-01-06T04:48:39.388-08:002014-01-06T04:48:39.388-08:00Have dwelt upon these thoughts the past few nights...Have dwelt upon these thoughts the past few nights. And dwelt some more.<br /><br />Greater minds have shipwrecked on those rocks before.<br /><br />But who am I to speak of such things. I've never even owned a credit card.<br /><br />Nor a mobile device, which must be why it's not ringing off the proverbial hook right now with incoming commissions from the Marchese.<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/seeth-no-man-gonzaga-andrea-mantegna.html" rel="nofollow">"...seeth no man Gonzaga...": Andrea Mantegna: The Court of Gonzaga / Ezra Pound: from Canto XLV</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-64646584888618852892014-01-05T11:26:54.092-08:002014-01-05T11:26:54.092-08:00Someone has characterized capital as dead labor: t...Someone has characterized capital as dead labor: the expropriated energy of human beings, skimmed off by the few using any and all means, including force and violence. Converted into “wealth” and “assets,” it dies, this energy—becomes matter, “money,” things we believe we “own.” <br /><br />One prototype for modern capital is found in the classical Greek world, a period we often understand wrongly and incompletely; but which we Western civ types revere for supposedly giving us the fundamentals of democracy. Even back then “democracy” was for the few. People, including women and children, were chattel, their lives at the mercy of the paterfamilias; slavery was “fundamental” to the economy. Greek thought of the time regarded physical survival as a bothersome reality; all human beings were “subject to necessity.” But a man (and it was only men, and only a few) could free himself from this burden of needs by forcing others, whether as slaves or as wage laborers, to do his work for him, so that he might be at liberty to participate in running the city-states where these malignant ideas took root. This was the only life worthy of living. Governance by these “free men” was tantamount to gaming the system for oneself and one’s class. <br /><br />It’s one thing to get it wrong. To be wrong for thousands of years takes it to another level.Hazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417573435195561519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-81199028317128826252014-01-04T21:45:43.000-08:002014-01-04T21:45:43.000-08:00wow. thought of this post as my friend refused to ...wow. thought of this post as my friend refused to let me pay for drinks.no need to read newspapers, you've got it all down. beautiful.barkstryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07802148418666645365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-78095451278739746322014-01-04T18:35:24.854-08:002014-01-04T18:35:24.854-08:00Thank you. This is excellent.Thank you. This is excellent.Hazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417573435195561519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-59210023235358084222014-01-04T13:06:40.039-08:002014-01-04T13:06:40.039-08:00A remarkable post - moving from the Masaccio to Ma...A remarkable post - moving from the Masaccio to Marx.<br /><br />Money is the pimp between need and object, between life and man's means of life.<br /><br />And from Hirst's vulgar bit of tribute to the head of Lord Turquoise.<br /><br />Every time I'd visit London as a child, I would look at that head if it were on show: all the dread and wonder comes back.<br /><br />The bond of all bonds is right.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.com