Alienated labour strips workers of knowledge of the products they make.

Evidence

Those who are no longer familiar with things, who do not experience them because they no longer handle them independently and can no longer linger with them, do not know where things belong. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 569

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that unfamiliarity with things destroys the very ability to place them in a world is a compact theory of alienation and epistemic loss, not just a complaint about consumerism.
• XREF: Connects to Marx’s alienated labour and to the earlier discussion of the culture industry’s effect on perception. — connects to: The worker’s alienated self-objectification grants truer knowledge of commodities than bourgeois objectivity. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 379; Technofeudalism extends alienation from labor’s products to ownership of minds — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 774; The worker’s alienation from his labor becomes the source of his cognitive strength — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 4319 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The worker’s alienated self-objectification grants truer knowledge of commodities than bourgeois objectivity. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 379; Technofeudalism extends alienation from labor’s products to ownership of minds — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 774; The worker’s alienation from his labor becomes the source of his cognitive strength — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 4319 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• The worker’s alienation from his labor becomes the source of his cognitive strength #complicates (0.83) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 4319
• The worker’s alienated self-objectification grants truer knowledge of commodities than bourgeois objectivity. #complicates (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 379