Monday, February 23, 2015

Capitalism and First-Person Singular

The standard grammatical category 'First-Person Singular', entails the possibility of a Second- and a Third-Person, as well as of Plural persons. However, from the 'I' of Capitalism, as a discrete 'individual', no ordinal continuum e. g. seconds, thirds, etc, emanates. Furthermore, the system does not recognize a 'We', and, lacking a Second-Person Singular, does not recognize a Second-Person Plural, either. Nor does Heidegger's 'They' supply a concept of Plurality, since what it connotes is too indefinite to entail any distinction between the quantities Singular and Plural. Instead, what is other than 'I' in Capitalism is simply a 'not-I that is essentially indifferent to its interests. So, the standard grammatical categories do not apply to it.

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