Production, consumption and purism: Juan Gris between Nord—Sud and L'Esprit Nouveau

Abstract

In his discussion of the relationships between production and consumption in the Introduction to Grundrisse, Marx argues that these two activities are to be grasped ‘as moments of one process’. Within this process, production not only creates a subject for the object, but it also creates a particular kind of subject, as production supplies ‘not an object in general, but a specific object which must be consumed in a specific manner’.