The commodity marketplace sells only dead matter severed from living relationships

Evidence

I’m trying hard to make this work, but what I feel in the woods, the pulsing animacy, is simply not here. I realize why the tenets of reciprocity don’t work here, why this glittering labyrinth seems to make a mockery of the Honorable Harvest. It’s so obvious, but I didn’t see it, so intent was I on searching for the lives behind the products. I couldn’t find them because the lives aren’t here. Everything for sale here is dead. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 724

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts sharply with ch5/ch10 animacy and subject-status of beings; bridges to all four courses on alienation from place. — connects to: The Honorable Harvest ethic dies where land and life are treated as commodities — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 731; Users are not products but abandoned carcasses stripped of surplus — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1199; The commodity no longer has a staging, only an obscene empty form — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 312 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• The Honorable Harvest ethic dies where land and life are treated as commodities #corroborates (0.85) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 731
• The commodity has become buried, sepulchral, and withdrawn from display #epitomizes (0.80) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 315
• Users are not products but abandoned carcasses stripped of surplus #qualifies (0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1199
• Reified commodities appear as alien dead matter inside modern artworks #exemplifies (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 348
• The commodity no longer has a staging, only an obscene empty form #expands (0.75) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 312
• Mechanism’s view of dead passive matter sanctioned nature’s exploitation #complicates (0.70) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 444