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the toys are recognizably like commodities, expropriated from the one who makes them and sent out to travel a long (but never infinite) chain of transactions before they can be allowed to resume their unremarkable existence as objects of use or enjoyment

Marx actually admired capitalism in some ways, which means that he might have been right about a few things; meanwhile, his trenchant criticisms of it will be treated as the quaintly perceptive observations of an awkward crank

de Certeau’s analysis of the city presents itself as both an extension of Foucault’s critique of totalizing enclosure and as its immanent critique

The key point hinges on the multivalent distinction between enclosure and indebtedness