The crisis of the productive subject: from the alienation of labor to the alienation of meaning

René Magritte, The Human Condition (1933). National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. I think: capitalism built the modern subject around the idea of productivity. Modern subject = productive subject (of value, labor, work, discourse, knowledge). Now that same capitalism, through its own development, generated the technology that puts that foundation in crisis. Hegel likes this. Freud would have…