> Habermas has the lifeworld, the background consensus
> fastened together by the spellbinding power of the sacred.
> Gadamer has miracles. Durkheim has glue. Weber has
> rationalization, Marx has labour, Hegel has Geist, Castoriadis
> has imagination...
No, no, capital has *us*. Distinguishing the subject (a.k.a. identity) from the object (a.k.a. the commodity-form) means, as Adorno put it, deciphering the preponderance of the object.
-- Dennis