[Microsound-announce] lunchbox as spectacle

[Kim Cascone]

>  “The commodity can be understood in its undistorted essence only  
> when it becomes the universal category of society as a whole. Only  
> in this context does the reification produced by commodity  
> relations assume decisive importance both for the objective  
> evolution of society and for the attitudes that people adopt toward  
> it, as it subjugates their consciousness to the forms in which this  
> reification finds expression. . . . As labor is increasingly  
> rationalized and mechanized, this subjugation is reinforced by the  
> fact that people’s activity becomes less and less active and more  
> and more contemplative.”
>
>     —Lukács, History and Class Consciousness
>

the quote above opens chapter 2 of The Society of the Spectacle:

http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord/2.htm

also:
http://lunchboxshop.com/
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