Before beginning this week’s post, I owe an apology for being a tardy or absent respondent to comments on previous posts, especially last week’s—I just realized today that I’ve left two comments hanging. I promise to do better this week! Now, at the end of last week’s post, I began a discussion of Jeffrey Sklansky’s equation of commodification with quantification. Sklansky argued that one of the reasons why commodification has become such an important frame for new histories of capitalism is because—unlike proletarianization—it seems to have no necessary boundaries. This boundlessness is quite different from the implicit premises of a Read more