Yet this piece is doing more than articulating a nostalgia for the flesh. It insists that commodity is also art, body, thingness, memory and its evaporation. It is not only that bodies leave their residue in the things they produce (an insight often pointed out by scholars of object studies), but also that objectness reveals the complex and hybrid preconditions of personhood. The history of the conflation of persons and things has rendered flesh into something more aggregated and inorganic than we are comfortable allowing. More than memorializing bodies that might otherwise not be remembered,
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