…Hegel came too In the film The Million Pound Note Gregory Peck plays the character of the American sailor Henry Adams. He has been blown off course in his schooner, picked up in the Atlantic and ends up in London penniless. Two eccentric brothers, Oliver and Roderick Montpelier see him in the street (he isContinue reading “When Marx went to Morrisons…”
Category Archives: Supermarkets
Reading Capital in a Supermarket
The more Marx is bought to earth, the more fascinating his ideas become. By earth, I mean the local area in which I live. If Marx is relevant to this somewhat shabby and run down urban area then his ideas can be scaled up to a global level. Marx had a lot of theories andContinue reading “Reading Capital in a Supermarket”
An Object from a War
A festival in a local park. A Ukrainian flag flying next to a collecting tin with ‘For the Ukrainian Army’ written on it. The war feels real, here in the town, a few streets away. A woman in her early thirties and a small boy with black rimmed glasses and gappy tumbledown teeth. They bothContinue reading “An Object from a War”
Commodity Fetishism 