[monochrom] Capitalism and Disco

[j. grenzfurthner/monochrom (das ende der nahrungskette)]

"In the language of classical economics, 
capitalism produces commodities, and its 
inter­est in commodities is their exchange value 
(how much profit they can realize) rather than 
their use value (their social or human worth). 
This becomes partic­ularly problematic for 
capitalism when dealing with an expressive 
commodity­ such as disco - since a major problem 
for capitalism is that there is no necessary or 
guaranteed connection between exchange value and 
use value. In other words, capitalism as 
productive relations can just as well make a 
profit from something that is ideologically 
opposed to bourgeois society as something that 
supports it. As long as a commodity makes a profit, what does it matter?"

http://history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.co.uk/2008/05/in-defence-of-disco-richard-dyer.html
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