摘要：In the last few decades, academic studies have highlighted the commodity’s
cultural biography (Kopytoff, 1986), its busy social life (Appadurai, 1986), and its
aesthetic power (Haug, 1986). This renewed interest in the commodity, however, has
not re-engaged with classical political economy’s study of the system of commodity
production; instead, it concerns mainly the consumption of commodities.
Accordingly, the commodity in such studies tends to figure as a one-sided object, an
object of consumption whose mode of production is largely irrelevant.
