By Cornelius Castoriadis
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The general idea is that one's degustatory enjoyment, one's pleasure in consumption, would be spoiled by intimate familiarity with the process of production. An interesting proposition. And yet one belied, precisely in the case of "sausage-making," by the dire consequences of consumer ignorance. Investigative journalist Upton Sinclair exposed the plight of immigrants in the unhealthy conditions (for producers as well as consumers) prevalent at turn-of-thecentury Chicago meat-packing plants. His novel, The Jungle, which had been rejected by many publishers for its socialist ideas, eventually became, under threat of selfpublication, a best seller that went on to impel passage of the Pure Food and Drugs and the Meat Inspection Acts of 1906.
This brief look at non-Carrefours texts also offers an occasion to marvel at how open and available Castoriadis made himself, not only to academic audiences or to established newspapers and magazines like Le Monde and Esprit, but also to more obscure activist journals, such as the anarchist arts review Drunken Boat, and to the author of a small book on grass-roots labor organizing, for whom Castoriadis wrote the only known book preface he composed during his lifetime. " That is to say, he quite willingly considered the possibility that mass action from below might come to upset, pose a challenge to, or at least temporarily escape the logic of those disturbing underlying trends whose contours he had been tracing out.
It is a telling statement in more ways than one. The general idea is that one's degustatory enjoyment, one's pleasure in consumption, would be spoiled by intimate familiarity with the process of production. An interesting proposition. And yet one belied, precisely in the case of "sausage-making," by the dire consequences of consumer ignorance. Investigative journalist Upton Sinclair exposed the plight of immigrants in the unhealthy conditions (for producers as well as consumers) prevalent at turn-of-thecentury Chicago meat-packing plants.