ISA ideological state apparatus RSA repressive state apparatus Perhaps actually read Jameson Reification and Fetishism

sm p. 163-164 Capital Fetishism is what relates to the commodities themselves. Reification is what relates to the humans/workers. Humans, when put to work under capital, they are reified (alienation, etc.). Ex: A human produces a commodity, traded for another commodity produced by another human. These two people are not related, but the relationship and the humans themselves are reified. Fetishism is the process by which a commodity forms the relationship with other commodities by trade, becoming anthropomorphized. Based on exchange value. These are simultaneous processes that are both detrimental. Capital Three definitions of capital: 1. Money that circulates 2. Its value that creates more value 3. Self-valorizing value Deal a little with the valorization aspect, and dont focus on circulation. The issue isnt the exchanging, but the production of surplus value. M-C-M (the change is brought about in the commodity) Valorization Discuss value that is in addition to or beyond the necessity to simply reproduce the worker. Work longer than the time it takes to produce the value you are creating as a worker. It is the process by which surplus value is created. M-C-M (the change is brought about in the commodity) Labour-power is what it all boils down to in both of these

Absolute versus Relative Surplus-Value Absolute p. 340 Interpretation of Mass Culture (Jameson Essay) First ten pages: We have to read into culture dialectically as both high culture (Frankfurt School) things like modern art resist capital as it resists commodification (does it really?) and low culture (Populists) shows more of reality as two sides of the same coin. Ideology v. reality First portion, more general discussion of why we should read both high and low culture. Following portions, gives more specific arguments of analysis of low culture in academia. (Brings in Freudian arguments; same way verbal stuff coming from patients to look at unconscious, we should look at low culture to see reflections on capitalism). Reificiation v. utopia v. repression. Reification is changing the human experience into a commodity that can be consumed as mass culture. We are reified by the consumption of mass culture thorugh ideology. High culture and low culture is a modernity in literature; Dickens was just culture, not high or low. Cooperation Cooperation is a method by which we can increase production to allow for relative surplus value. p. 439 Cooperation also has the side effect of socialization of workers, leading to collectivism. p.447 Capitalist has a certain interest in the cooperation as a leader. P. 448 to 449; the capitalist playing as a leader is conducting some of the revolutionary activity of his own accord. Abstract labor and labor theory of value Abstract labor is the generalized version of labor, but just the concept of laboring. Sociallynecessary labor yields the abstract labor (gives a specific quantification to abstract labor). Labor theory of value: the value of the commodity is the total of the abstract labor. The value of the commodity is the sum of all the value of the people that made the individual components.

The amount of abstract labor that goes into something determines the exchange value. The use value is different in that a chair has a different value than, say, a chair. Abstract labor is the currency for equating two things. As to a scale, functioning universally or generally. Concrete labor is being left behind, which you would think would have a value doesnt have a value because it needs to be able to abstract these things in order to circulate. Ideology Infrastructure and superstructure influence each other. Superstructure rejustifies the conditions of the infrastructure. Self-referential logical loop. Infrastructure creates the superstructure Interpolation is how it produces the subject. Formal and real subsumption Where in the text is it brought up: p. 1020-1024