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Article: Topographic economies in Dassin's Thieves 'Highway.(Jules Dassin)(Essay)
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- Film Criticism
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- December 22, 2008
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Buying and selling, together with their psychological appurtenances, are older even than the beginnings of any kind of social forms of organization and alliances: it was rather out of the most rudimentary form of personal legal rights that the budding sense of exchange, contract, guilt, right, obligation, settlement, first transferred itself to the coarsest and most elementary social complexes (in their relations with other similar complexes), together with the custom of comparing, measuring, and calculating power against power.
--Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals.
There are valuable human activities which require the motive of money-making and the ...