Enjoying not knowing.

I really enjoyed the Moten text and found the writing really beautiful, but there are some key points i feel I struggled to grasp, particularly the direction he is going with sound and how he seems to be using it to rethink Marx's materialism. I feel comfortable with where his thinking starts in this piece, although I seem to quickly lose course once Moten gets into the particularities of what the 'speaking commodity' means for different forms of value, essential and otherwise.

Here are some passages I liked, but need to understand more:

“But I am interested, finally, in the implications of the breaking of such speech, the elevating disruptions of the verbal that take the rich content of the object’s/commodity’s aurality outside the confines of meaning precisely by way of this material trace.”


“Moving, then, in the critical remixing of nonconvergent tracks, modes of preparation, traditions, we can think how the commodity who speaks, in speaking, in the sound—the inspirited materiality—of that speech, constitutes a kind of temporal warp that disrupts and augments not only Marx but the mode of subjectivity that the ultimate object of his critique, capital, both allows and disallows.”


“What remains secret in Marx could be thought as or in terms of race or sex or gender, of the differences these terms mark, form, and reify. But we can also say that the unrevealed secret is a recrudescence of an already existing notion of the private (or, more properly, of the proper) that operates within the constellation of self-possession, capacity, subjectivity, and speech. He can point to but not be communist. What does the dispropriative event have to do with communism? What’s the revolutionary force of the sensuality that emerges from the sonic event Marx subjunctively produces without sensually discovering?”