Waste and Money in Norman Brown

[Keith Davis]

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> On Mar 16, 2016, at 12:00 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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