The commodity category long predates the nineteenth century and needs imperialist framing

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I am doubtful whether this category appeared ‘for the first time’ as such in the nineteenth century. (Incidentally, I would say the same objection also applies to the intérieur and the sociology of interiority in my Kierkegaard book, and every criticism I have made of your draft also holds for my own earlier study.) I believe that the commodity category could be rendered much more concrete by reference to the specifically modern categories of world trade and imperialism. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 251

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• XREF: Connects to Marx’s commodity fetishism and postcolonial critiques of the commodity form’s history; also links to Adorno’s later work. — connects to: Modern capital markets only emerged systematically after 1850 — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1659