Hunger is hunger, but the hunger gratified by cooked meat eaten with a knife and fork is a different hunger from that which bolts down raw meat with the aid of hand, nail and tooth. Production thus produces not only the object but also the manner of consumption, not only objectively but also subjectively. Production thus creates the consumer.
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 01:05:35PM -0600, Carrol Cox wrote:
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> Miles Jackson wrote:
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> > "Underneath" all that culture that Butler and others discuss, do any
> > significant number of humans have instinctive attraction to the
> > opposite sex or is all sexual attraction socially
> > constructed/cultural/symbolic ?
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> > Yes, definitely!
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> :-)
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> I can't remember what chapter the passage is in, but this point is made
> clearly by Marx when he contrasts "eating" under hunter/gatherer
> conditions and "eating" with a knive and fork in the 19th c.
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> Carrol
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