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is not material manufacture... rather, it means to render visible, to cause to appear and be made to appear.

The original sense of 'production' is not in fact that of material manufacture... rather, it means to render visible, to cause to appear and be made to appear: producer. Sex is produced as one produces a document, or as an actor is said to appear (se produire) on stage. To produce is to force what belongs to another order (that of secrecy and seduction) to materialize. (Baudrillard 'forget foucault' 37)

 does not occur without a need, but consumption reproduces the need.

No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need. Karl Marx

is, for the Japanese, less a matter of simply 'manufacturing'. It is something closer to 'caressing into existence.'

Japan was the country where things were not simply manufactured, but 'caressed into existence'

is that in whose pores lives usury, just as the Gods of epicurus lived in the space between the worlds.

Usury lives in the pores of production, as it were, just as the gods of Epicurus lived in the space between the worlds. Karl Marx

's ultimate condition is the reproduction of the conditions of production.

The ultimate condition of production is therefore the reproduction of the conditions of production Louis Althusser

is less to do with problematic reifications than with the way in which men find themselves by not finding themselves, by drinking and eating. Production is biting into a peach. Production is enjoyment, of one’s biting and of the peach. Production is love, which includes sheer solidarity with the nonhuman—putting that peach right into your mouth and biting. Production is something you can’t help doing. Production is a silkworm oozing out silk. And so, production is a bee building a hive.

Marx uses “behave” (what bees do) in a positive sense in his notes on Adolph Wagner, in which he defines production differently than the commonly accepted notion, which seems to have much more to do with the reified production socialism is meant to oppose, rather like how we have confused time with the measurement of time: Men do not by any means begin by “finding themselves in this theoretical relationship to the things of the outside world.” They begin, like every animal, by eating, drinking, etc., that is not by “finding themselves” in a relationship, but actively behaving, availing themselves of certain things of the outside world by action, and thus satisfying their needs. (They start, then, with production.). Production is biting into a peach. Production is enjoyment, of one’s biting and of the peach, of the nonhuman. Production is love, which includes sheer solidarity with the nonhuman—putting that peach right into your mouth and biting. Production is something you can’t help doing. Production is a silkworm oozing out silk. And so, production is a bee building a hive.

is exploitable in capitalism because it is the thing you can’t help doing (like writing poetry). It is, your species-being into whose flow the capitalist can dip a bucket to extract labor time from it and homogenize it.

Production, as in the writing of a brilliant poem, is the thing you can’t help doing, your species-being. This is exactly how it can be exploited. It just happens anyway, so that the capitalist can dip a bucket into its flow to extract labor time from it and homogenize it. The capitalist exploits this fact, the non-chosen, non-“imaginative” part of me that I don’t have to plan, the fact that I’m a being like a silkworm. Which is precisely why my labor can be equated with the productivity of the soil—both are conveniently spontaneous bits of “nature” that capitalism can turn into blank screens for value computation.

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