On social currencies and human economies: some notes on the violence of equivalence – David Graeber
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On social currencies and human economies: some notes on the violence of equivalence – David Graeber
How is this calculability effectuated? How does it become possible to treat people as if they are identical? The Lele example gave us a hint: to make a human being an object of exchange, one woman equivalent to another, for example, requires first of all ripping her from her context; that is, tearing her away from that web of relations that makes
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