Waste and Money in Norman Brown

[David Morris]

This book is a masterpiece, and it is a foundation of Pynchon's GR.

David Morris

On Tuesday, March 15, 2016, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Found on p. 283 of my paperback of *Life Against Death*
>
> Here he is talking about the development of the city and of money. The
> now-repressed sacred (what he calls superfluous-sacred) origins of money.
> The connection between money and anality.
>
> "But the essence of sublimation is the reification of the
> superfluous-sacred in monumental, enduring form. Hence it is in the city
> that money finally settles upon the most durable precious metals. The city,
> in Gordon Childe's theory, presupposes metallurgy; but the metallurgy it
> presupposes is not metallurgy in the service of 'rational' 'mastery over
> nature,' or even in the service of war, but metallurgy in the service of
> conspicuous (and sacred) waste."
>
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