The contemplative stance adopted towards a process mechanically conforming to fixed laws and enacted independently of mans consciousness and impervious to human intervention, i.e. a perfectly closed system, must likewise transform the basic categories of man's immed iate attitude to the world it reduces space and time to a common denominator and degrades time to the dimension of space. " (p89) Marx: the subordination of man to the machine, therefore, we should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing, he is at most the incarnation of time. (p89 Lukacs: Thus time sheds its qualitative, variable, flowing nature; it freezes into ar exactly delimited, quantif iable continuum filled with quantifiable things (the reified mechanically objectified performance of the worker, wholly separated from his total human personality ) in short, it becomes space. (p90) D. reification is the universal fate Reification: the triple“ cut off” an object cut off from everything that makes it the stuff it is, a subject cut off from everything that makes it a singular 'I these both cut off from each other individuals(subjects) cut off from each other(individuals are made isolated abstract atoms) Reification: as the universal fate al relations between individuals in the performance of their labor are disguised under the shape of social relations between the products of labor a relation between people takes on the character of a thing and thus acquires a phantom objectivity, an autonomy that seems so strictly rational and all-embracing as to conceal every trace of its fundamental nature the relation between people. " P83 E. The irrationality of capitalism The rationality of the Capitalism is only partial, but taken as total: It recognizes only part of the object(abstraction of the object); It recognizes only part of the subject(abstraction of the subject ) The principle of rational calculability can only work in the limited partial systems(the relations between these parts are totally contingent) The fate of capitalism Nothing or all 2. the Reified Consciousness A, The determination of the reified consciousness: immediacy (without mediations):3 “The contemplative stance adopted towards a process mechanically conforming to fixed laws and enacted independently of man’s consciousness and impervious to human intervention, i.e. a perfectly closed system, must likewise transform the basic categories of man’s immediate attitude to the world: it reduces space and time to a common denominator and degrades time to the dimension of space. ” (p89) Marx: the subordination of man to the machine, “therefore, we should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is at most the incarnation of time.”(p89) Lukacs: “ Thus time sheds its qualitative, variable, flowing nature; it freezes into an exactly delimited, quantifiable continuum filled with quantifiable ‘things’(the reified, mechanically objectified ‘performance’ of the worker, wholly separated from his total human personality): in short, it becomes space.” (p90) D, reification is the universal fate Reification: the triple “cut off” “an object cut off from everything that makes it the stuff it is, a subject cut off from everything that makes it a singular ‘I’, these both cut off from each other” individuals (subjects) cut off from each other (individuals are made isolated abstract atoms) Reification: as the universal Fate The social relations between individuals in the performance of their labor are disguised under the shape of social relations between the products of labor: “a relation between people takes on the character of a thing and thus acquires a ‘phantom objectivity’, an autonomy that seems so strictly rational and all-embracing as to conceal every trace of its fundamental nature: the relation between people.” P83 E, The irrationality of Capitalism The rationality of the Capitalism is only partial, but taken as total: It recognizes only part of the object (abstraction of the object); It recognizes only part of the subject (abstraction of the subject); The principle of rational calculability can only work in the limited partial systems (the relations between these parts are totally contingent) The Fate of Capitalism: Nothing or All 2, the Reified Consciousness A, The determination of the reified consciousness: immediacy (without mediations):