“it des not float in the ar when considering use-ales rst always presuppose thelr quantitatively determined character, suchas he dzesoftimesi passed albizu statue without seing it, ne una factory aon of sharks ‘hac eat fom the discharge, et ‘he eto irs prevailsin me since ido not possess a thorough knowledge of sharks, ‘chow the factory ceates an imbalance inthe coastal ecosytemt (or how crested an ecological imbalance ‘in my second gisends family ecosystem when I ate fom the dschat ‘he lady ofa commodiy isin fact a use-value or good. the wealue becomes effective only through use or consumption letus carly examine this mater, aninividval commodity, focenample a quater of pan dé a0, seexchanged for ater articles inthe most diverse proportions. rings talking about the unpostponeble payment finaly replaced by the acronym i030. ‘heisowe. you thi: much time taken From my dy ssexchanged fr acallto the unemployment oft thor anyone would say has nothing todo with the pan de agus corthe strong espresso no milk. nonetheless what a jaw thing) lusexchange-value remains unchanged, ahether tis expressed inx pan de agus, y minutes of phone cal oye > where xequalsy equals equa ero. require something cnn inorder parcpte in numerical exchange there this someching in common cannot be natural or corporeal. inimost(yes must as in owed therefore, esscmnen ae embodies erein, itdoes not contain a single adoquin of usevalue lecustake two other commodities, forexample, the aogutn ands poequivalen:the yearned adoguin, whateverits exchange ats, ve an crate alte formula that reads: tadoquin-t000ee0002000000 ya, buethese things, bengas dissimilar as august 2 and august «s dssimilr a cnn and noicentr, ‘ disimilar asthe publicfinancing corporation ‘nd th government development bank, sdisimilr as spanish and gringo colonilims, ‘hvetobeeguialent toa third ching, haecobe reducible this third thing. simple gometc example will show ‘hat tangles le adoguins,work the work whose usefulness swe cll sf product as useful fect. Jpreprescnted inthe usevalue ofits sesuefunessis made evident through a social division of labor. sa setof dissimilar useful obs ally diferent ually diferemtable, Jed eres ro work the tuna Factory rnoneheles.it was not eresa who old me about the discharge, forse barely diseussed work, ‘even though her clothes always smelled like tuna and she changed soaps Ike merchants exchange commodities, like a multismembered system changes productive branches like one changes ons spcislized profession when there are no jobs like one learns an unknown trade ‘when fish cans are needed (youll be sever ve cen, lke oe trains oneself ber the stench ofa hug ‘when it comes fom she who knows haw much fs owed and what t0 value ‘he more idle and unsilful the laborer” the productive fore of labors not onerary 10 popular opinion, Feat bythe govesmment of puerto rico. JASON BENNICK has confirmed that his company ean produce hsce new beaches by Bling In the strait perce the isla de cabras and san juan, renting hundreds of miles of sand employees fis company, mister sand, prinefpally produces edible send .s, pat for more than a decade he has wante rests o ead zones for he informs us tat sdco-expand is ine ijt wanted to go somewhere warm, you know? and heard about the bonds in puerto ric and how cheap they had ote, va wel we can move to florida or we ca move pot ic. soi told marth ike it ore isthe perfect moment fortis sor of ene when we asked how he planned to create the alae eect he informed us that various farms would because his dream was to eventually gwerantee the investment of beer company whose name be did noc wish to divulge produce a lemon green algehe noma condion of proguetion aie asset ra anal gee of aberdeen intensity “pe coloaf mister bens alge sr derlopent of scence adit techlogical ppicions ken tla isla de cabras its Rixation on the domestication oflaber chest J ehe amount of tips vet “tne caprcorian archetype a 1 te leers she wrote 10 yo “ihe cgarees ofan etre lifetime 1 esi cordination ofthe process of ‘the costo Ton the market the natal cantons production nse beonck assures usthat, long asthey are not lor unskilled, allthesand men ‘il have the same oppor toapplyforemploymen in his company “oats are not exchanged foros” lecustake two commodities such as so yeursof workand one debe ecumalated over 50 years. as proprietor ofthe fist, ousdecide to take it eatbe hilton banking vere fer my fet pay this deb put they explain that a enough just asthe debt and the ify years of work have use-alues that are qualitatively diferent, so aze the two frms of labor that produce chem: that ofthe investor and that ofthe colonized. your life i not enough. you will ave to pay wih the labor ‘ofyour children and your childrens children tags say you tel chem never ha amy ecm never wanted to make heirs of those who burely how thediference two milk and cout Dut they explain that, even fyou dont have a linesee, your neighbors, the dog that plundersyoursrash dota sophia with hee luminous rosary, your abuela chat barely leaves the house to go tothe pharm, ngelia that ill waits your book, iy has jb but stil bas debs pas Tui ehat isha guy who magged you forte Bucks wilinber imagine thar you come back wth your neghb0r% weit yourabuela with dhe dog ‘hat sometimes searches your shy ‘wthangela with is and sy eeare mye day sce our ponent? wil you terminator debt? wil yours cur names rom the system? but they say wher ae the rivers? dro guaaac, eo camuy. dlricibuey, rio de bayamén, driopuerta muev, elri grande de lia clrio herrea, elriomameyes, rio sabana, elo fajardo, rie daguao, —_elrfo santiago, drioblans, erie humacan, arise, rio maunato, > hey wile yuri thistle you decide ro ge ahead, the a specter you haunt al of puerto rico, you grab hands of whatever {uoline station umbrelis, mesons, pi certificates, shutdown shops sou go back tothe bankwith you sland so densely ingested Ja you cough up burials and steedighs and sty here have al that fs ewe the cribean sea andthe north aati rei have: my imaginary burthey ay gow nothingness tour account has negative balance in exchange fortis debt we only ace coats ‘buhis you definitely dont have because is almost never cold In puerto ria. lets say you got philadelphia tolook for the coats much needed by the abuelas the anges, the ro maunabo you work hard, ook fora license with a renewed address buy three four five hundeed coats, ‘0 tothe local branch and say ——————— ——ere hey are. ‘eal ito py tha de but without ooking up they answer herein philly we dot cept oats ec suppose that in the pasteles box you send the coats to your mother witha note that eds yet puro ian debt, land mami afer decoding your handwriting) caties theboxt the loa branch ofthe banco popular, caribe hilton banking coc loqusea bank where they iv hera look and—before she can sy ‘word—indieate totum in coats, use Hine number thre Imagine that isa long, longer, almost interminable line, line that spans 50 years. eT work isthe father ard earth the meter he imporeed mangostaste like pineapple the manoles ire replaced by orange barrels value on the market. all meal ha the sore tat sells ll fella me mangbs fort dollars bpeceuse ve said that In puesto rico wwe have medium but unforgivable fits scalpel burialsae like concerts of shackles you suflered scalps bury them, sev carousel repetitions horses ike real hide. ‘theearth where the rocks are buried, the earth where they bury my ist the earh where died sailor ‘give me your hand erick ‘hey are palm lines, scalpel cuts, root of cei,she conversion ofa sum of money into a sum of commits for exch poem you writ about the debs, fy cight unicomne meet at the bottom ofa poo! very time you write DEATH TO THE COLONIZERS, golden coguiisborn. enc rime you repeat ‘VOTE FOR THIS IN A COLONIAL ELECTORAL SYSTEM, golden coqut plans aceiba, {or every two compas that am the cogs ofthe oversight boar, the coconut lanes and the aleapurrias duplicate, ‘ach me you believe a woman who's been raped, teen oftrans experience acquires his hormones, forever verse that culs up in my people’ ches, win ve bras from the enemy, foreach opportunistic politician you behead, my faith inthe educational system is restored. Inalnaceacher, the faith in us, forevery song you dedicate to mariglorie or ingela, we recovera tle piee of our histo: » ‘ i each scl of slidary without remuneration, sac ine yu repeat inn three times tothe miro Sacome backs a specter to wreak vengeance on hisassassin, chime you repeat in three times nto the mirror, Feit joined by the specter ofjonge steven. ach ime you repeat in theee times ito the mir (3), the wind wil become projector transparencies, that will become broken windows, ‘hat will become ars frozen by the gyres ofall chose rorcured by la comay. foreach there is only one many times insisted) debe you dow pay, you ate donating a hundred flying hammocks tothe victims of neoliberalisn. foreach miscalculation, you sve a bay. foreach bay you save, ‘wegive thisislandan ant-crulseship of hope, and we sinkall the cruise ships ‘and we sinkall the eruise ships o i ae rhe money appar 43 TE NECN mn palptoe because we areal sm pained and pl ifyousny gil 07 say boy tomy gi MAM jo ad you say boy oF gt so my persoalfeation, sel, you know whatsup, ity ityou dont kn at 10 expec souk wh the proximiy i scent. voce me fity PUPS ae established a 53067 Fock wih my loves split your nal m through which ityou pe erexcent moon isa nai of the wafer eaten inthename ofall your flesh, totransmute isto name ourselves Thecome your boy when calling ou g jour hey when calling you boy eu boy well be jel when you ae gi becoming ityou dort know how to say hi without the fedbuck pronoun, itsbest you dont though reall diya shatter entiedes thousand erica or bchos as much in ogo inal youare your jelly my sale ve Been thrown esliferc of stone“po loa por los aires" alconsderarlos valores de us, siempre se presapone su caricterdeverminado cuantitatva talcomo a dherna de veces que pasé la estatua de albizu sin vera, una fivca de atin, una foneladadetburones que comen del desi, te laf tris prealece ya que no poseo un conecmieno cabal sobre los tiburones "oto a brie desbalancea el ecosistema costero (sicdmo desbalanceé el eosseme familiar ‘em segunda nova cuando comia del desagie) flowy mismo deus sinn@ mismo deune mereanci es pues un var dew un bien "rasta elect inicamenteene uso o en el consumo, ‘amines eco con cautele tna mercanca Individual, por ejempl, una pst de pan de agua, se ingercambia por otros articulosen las proporciones ms diversas. po as mafanashablamos sobre el pago imposergable ‘que es fnalmente reemplazado por ls sgl tlt ‘ltedebo tata tempo de mi dia se inercambia por una llamada la ofcina dl desempleo «que cualquiera dia nada ene que ver con el pan de agua icon un expreso fuerte sin leche ro obstane (cose faucebunda), ‘svalorde cambio se mantiene inalerado, sea quese express en pan de agus, y minutos de lamada, tlt etc, onde es gual ayes igual ae igual acerdebe debe, portant, poser comenid dierenciable de es diversos modes de exes tomemosotrasdos mercancias, poreemplcladoguin ys pooquitalenteel adoquin aRorada feos cul seas lain de cambio, pens rar na formalita que die 1 adogula=1909000000000000 a8 pees cout senda tan dstntas como lo son el2 ye 3 de ago, comolason enn neiento, ‘oma son a corporacion paral fnanciamiento pablo » elbaneo gberamentl de forme, ‘om losonel colonialism espaol el gringo, ‘nen que er equivalents una tercera cosa ‘nen que er reducible a esatercera cos. a senlo empl geométio nos demuesta ‘elo ringulo como los adoguines sn com para partcipar del itecamibio numérica sna cnn ar ie pele anna mo puede nat roconteneniuitadoquin de valor de uso,tiamaros aby tial abajo cya uiidad serpresentaen el valor de uso de su producta como oct. stati se manifesta mediante una division socal dl aban tunconjuntoderabajos iscsi, igvalmentdifernciables,adialmente distinc, leva teresa acrabaaren la tuners sin embargo no fe teresa quien me cont sobre el desagie, pues ellaapenasdscuia el wabsjo, evant més perezsoo forge era wn hombre" ta fuera producti del abso noe ‘contraio ale opinién pablice fjada por el gobierno de puerto reo JASON BENNICK ha conirmado «que su compafin puede produc pes playas nuevas rellenando cl estrecho entre Ie isla de eabras y san juan, tos de miles de empleados de arena creando| sucompafia, mister sand, produce principalmentejuguetesde arena comestibles pero hace més de un década deseaba expandir tus interesesa ona cilldas, pues informa que ‘just wanted ogo somewhere warm, you know? and heard about the bond in pur rco and how cheap they had goiter, ‘stl marta, wl we can move to florida or wecan move to puerto rca, ike it here. the ere moment for this sor of venture sungue ropa lla siempre ain y eambiaba de jabones comomeriderescambian de mercances ‘oino se adie un l hedor del abrazo ‘and viene de guen valor le debid, i "las condiciones normales de produccén vigonte en una sociedad + el grado social medio de destezaeintensidad del abajo + eleolor del alga de mister bennick ‘ele de desarolloen ques hallan a ciency sapling, teenage ‘os vss que he dado al sla de cabras + elarquetip caprcorniano y su afin por la domestcaciin de valor ‘lascanasque le esrb yol ‘los igus de una vida enter + lacoordinacin social del proceso de produccién + eleosode Tenel mercado as condiciones nates lsetorbemicknos segura qe, conta de que no sean ope perez, ‘ooslos hombres de tena ‘endain amisma oportunidad desolcar empleo en su compel "yo se cambia una chagueta por una chaguta™ tomentos dos mercancias, por ejemplo, soatosde trabajo una deuda cuulada por oats. ‘como propetaria dea primera dcdeslevacaalcarbe hilton bancaro ‘Bande dara vide por pagar eta dead pero we expican que noda asi como le deuda y los 50 aos de trabajo son valores de uso cuaitatvamente diferentes, son cuabtativamente djerntes los trabsjos por medio de los cuales Ilegan a existin el del Inversonista y el del clonizada tu vida noes sficietetondis «qe pagala con el trabajo de tushijoeyloshijos de tus ios Aigamos ques dices munca ve porgue munca quis queheredaran mi deuia agus que apenas saben dsingr centrecoqutoy leche pero eexplican que, aunque no tengas nse, laheredarén tus vecinas, el perro que sages ta bar, doa sophia con su rosario luminoso, twabuelaque apenas sale ale farmaci, angela que iin espera ibe,uisqe ialmente ene empleo pero con deuda todavia sel epo que te asa por diez pesos. imagine aque relies con tus vecinos contuabuela, om el perro quea veces rebusc a basura, con angelin, con Tus y dices Ie au misereders separ must ago? ards porfaliada muestra deuda? oman nue names dl sistema? perotedicen teflon os ios clio gujtaca cam elriacibuco, lio de ayn, lriopuertonuevo, elrio grande de lia, lrioherrera, el io mareyes, lriosabana, elo fjardo, riodaguas, —elrio santiago, rio blanca, eli humacao, rio se, elriomaunabo, axcete te, tls sein tas herders cesta ver decides adelantarte feeorres todo puerto rico como un espero, lagoras pues de lo que sea sombrilas de gasolinera piedracaliza, eras de nacimiento, iendas quebradas, elves al banco con tuslatan densamenteingerida tque roses semaforosyenterosy dices eaguitodolo que cabe centre] mar carbe ye atléntico norte heat il imaginari. perotedicen debs a nada, tu cuenta ten un balance negative. ‘acambio de eta deuda sso aexptamos chaquetas ‘ero estos que no lo tenes porque casi munca hace fro. en puerto re. igamos que vas hasta fiadelfia ‘a buscar las chaquetas que necesian las abuelas las angela, el so maunabo, ete. tuabsjas duro, buscas una licencia con di eccin renovada, ‘compres tres cuatro, quinientas chaquetss, vasalasucursil local dicesqu es toa se pagar oqula dee per sini quien fin aceptamns haguets, supongamos queen Ia caja de pasteles Teenvaslaschaquecas tu made com una nota que lee pag dead de puro rio rman as decedficar ew era) carga Jacala hasta la sucursl del banco popula, ef eatibe hilton bancarioo el Joquesea bank, donde la mitan may leindican anes de que pueda decir palabraalguna— para entregarchaguets ule lala mimeo tres. Amaginate que es una il larga, argulsima, cas interminable, una fla de 50 aos. set trabajo ese prey lara, su madre” roa mangsmportados saben api reerapas de las aleantaillas sereamplazadas por bares deemergenci: ja meal tine valor en el mera tatienda que vende todo sme vende mans Por 4 es porguehe dicho que en puerto reo vos futas medianas, pero mperdonables. entierros de bistur son como concierto de giletes suite bist, cntieratos ve mediante reptiles de carrusel caballo como nfs eles. Jatierra donde las piedrasseentietran, latiersa donde entierzo mi puto, latierradonde mori marinera sdame tu mano ericka: son lineas en palmas, tujadasde bist, riz de cei,PE CUE LeU Py TUNG aa ge eo ANVIL NEQE Rana a S DEINE amen C] LSS rR ee nag 000 ae ny