Notes 2

1. I now get paid to sit in a coffee shop, read, eat biscotti, and occasionally make drinks.
2. On my way to work, I noticed a sign outside of Clothesline Organics that read "We BET you'll love our stuff." Cute.
3. Allen called and mentioned he lost $800 on the slots last night. He went home at 2am, slept for two hours, and came back to win $500 of it back. He tells me this is "not bad."
4. At the coffee shop, my boss mentioned how he likes to play poker tables. "I want to control my own destiny," he said. "Y'know... to touch the cards and all."
5. Production --> distribution --> exchange --> consumption. "Members of a totality, differences within a unity." (Marx) "All production is appropriation of nature by the individual within and by means of a particular form of society." (From Grundrisse)
   
6. Nature --> faith --> magic --> the invisible hand --> the spectral machine
   
7. "Here, again, is the specter, the distinctive spirit, of neoliberal capitalism in its triumphal hour." (Comaroff and Comaroff, Millennial Capitalism: First Thoughts on a Second Coming)