Read "Power and Exchange Styles" by Yukito Karatani
- Amazon
- 2023
p.45~ Short Keynote Speech by Hon.
- Structure of World History" has received support, but is misunderstood.
- Many people received the exchange style D as if it were something that could be achieved by human will.
- Example: Audrey Tan.
- D is thought of as if it is something that can be performed by humans if they know and intend to do so.
- That's not what I intended.
- A force that seems to work beyond human will may emerge as D
- I wrote "Introduction to Exchange Styles" in 2017 to supplement
- I tried to clarify this idea.
- See the power that arises from the modes of exchange as the spiritual power that each brings to the table.
- That is "power and modes of exchange" (2022).
- Spiritual power is not just a metaphor, but a real "force" derived from different modes of exchange
- Marx presented in his capital theory the "earthly deities" created by Mode of Exchange C.
- I follow Hobbes., who compared the nation to a monster "leviathan" that arose from interchange format B.
- The same could be said for A and D.
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