What are dead things?
What makes a thing dead?
To be an object, must one be lifeless?
Is life what makes a subject?
Are all objects dead?
Does an object come to live when interacting with a subject?
Is a dead thing such as a garment given life as an extension of the subject, without becoming a subject itself?
By adorning, we seek to objectify ourselves. Does this mean that we are seeking death? That kitsch at once fears death and succumbs to it. This would be a fitting parallel to the consumption that at once subordinates and is subordinated.
Al polarities are intimate - indeed, in polarising, we seek the point where the substance exists symbiotically with itself - the point of translation.
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