INFINITE SUNDAYS
David Graeber attempts to synthesize the insights of Karl Marx and Marcel Mauss. He sees value as a model for human “meaning-making”. Starting with Marxist definitions of consumption and production, he introduces Mauss’s idea of "objects that are not consumed" and constructs a list of things that are neither consumption nor production. Graeber’s list includes those human activities that are not consumption, in the narrow sense of simply purchasing something, and are not production, in the sense of creating or modifying something intended for sale or exchange. It includes:
0. cooking a meal
0. extinguishing a fire
0. dressing and undressing
0. applying makeup
0. watching television
0. playing in a band
0. falling in love
0. reading
0. listening to music
0. going to a museum or gallery
0. taking a photograph
0. gardening
0. writing
0. conducting a coming of age ceremony
0. going window shopping
0. doing sports
0. acting
0. turning around in a circle
0. teaching
0. having an argument
0. playing games
0. having sex
0. attending a religious service
looking at old photos
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