Even the most extreme market model secretly turns out to be a production model

Evidence

What immediately leaps to the eye, therefore, is the paradox — of the greatest symptomatic significance for the Marxian theoretical tourist — that this most scandalous of all market models is in reality a production model! In it consumption is explicitly described as the production of a commodity or a specific utility; in other words, a use value which can be anything from sexual gratification to a convenient place to take it out on your children if the outside world proves inclement. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 587

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the category error of ‘the economy is everywhere’ — how the most market-triumphalist theory quietly smuggles back a Marxian production framework, which invites the question of whether ‘waning of affect’ and culture-as-economy have the same hidden inversion.