In a message dated 11/13/10 11:14:22 PM, [email protected] writes:
> Insofar as > a Work of Art is intended to communicate an experience (which I have > argued > is always the case), the commodification of art is the commodification of > our experience. > You are defining commodification as making some experience into something which can be put into the marketplace. I think you are inadvertently taking the Marxist idea of commodification in the marketplace as the only form of commodification. What is the difference between making an experience into a commodity in this sense and making religious experience into a commodity which is then placed in religious establishments? KAte Sullivan
