Sweetness and Power Re: Deleuze & Guattari...

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Quoting Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>:
>
>>  Has anyone read Sidney W. Mintz, _Sweetness and Power: The Place of
>>  Sugar in Modern History_ (1985)?  If there are comparable historical
>>  materialist efforts that analyze other consumption goods of
>>  importance, I'd be interested in reading them.
>
>what makes "consumption goods" important rather than unimportant?
>why does sugar count (no, i know that one); why do other "goods" not count?
>i would think, yoshie, that people's lives counted... were "of importance"...
>and that includes tons of things that probably don't count as "goods" in
>macroeconomic relations
>
>Catherine

Each writer makes an argument for the significance of the object (be 
it a consumption good or anything else) of his or her analysis, which 
each reader is free to accept or reject.  Mintz does that well for 
sugar: what changes in the relations of production and consumption 
have made sugar a mass consumption good, what impacts mass production 
and consumption of sugar have had on working-class lives, etc.  You 
can do the same for any object that you wish to analyze, which others 
are free to evaluate according to our various priorities.
-- 
Yoshie

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