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![Except from Ramey, J. (2025). Elemental: Denise Ferreira da Silva’s Raw Materialist Justice. Religions
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[enslaved] labor might as well be that which [the enslaved person] is laboring on, that which her body becomes when it is applied in the effort to un/make, re/de/compose, enters into the constitution of that other thing, the cotton boils, the stewed collard greens, the clean undergarments, the shack where she lives, or the houses her descendants may or may not be able to afford to own. That labor, her body in the cotton boils, Marx tells us, does not count. It does not explain or create capital. It does transform, transfer, convert itself to what she is handling, touching, moving around. But because it is not graspable as a manifestation of her “will” or an effect of her “desire” or “drive”, whatever she makes, whatever contains a piece of her is not to be counted as wealth. And yet she is right there. In that cotton boil, in that factory in London’s East End, a child or a young woman uses up her body, moving the spindle, separating the threads, and both of them together—the captive body in the scene of subjugation and living labor—come together in the yarn. It is not only that her labor—the expenditure of her bodycreates something that is then separated from her as an object of use and brought to the market to become a commodity. No, she is always there, within it, and never alone. That piece of fabric is also a singular composite that gathers the labor and the calor of everything found in the expropriated Native lands where the iron ore or gold was extracted or the cotton grown. From this tangible transduction alone, and not through the abstract translations operated by labor as a conceptum, in particular its translation as time that renders it measurable—it is possible to consider her person to matter both ethically and economically. (Ferreira da Silva 2022d, p. 259)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:626fbokkp4mkvrxtypajyhdg/bafkreicrr6qisjdfab4latbvgkg65nqxczb3hvxohl4dctppnn2f4ybi3a)
