[re: 116] Show vascillates frequently between Marxist and Durkheimian perspectives. Does solidarity triumph over economy? Vice versa? The answer is probably an ethical one, seeing as though, in this case, solidarity and economy are largely irreconcilable. Stars constitute a semiotic terrain that appropriates the heretofore fictive commodity of money. Thus Tonegawa was very clever in establishing a hegemonic semiotic microcosm which individuals could not free themselves from, only realizing at the very end that what they were after in the very first place was cash with a greater exchange-value, not stars, ...
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