| This question <95|95> overall <104|106> Hans: <104|106>. |
| Question 59: Give other examples where something is the carrier of something else but not its source. |
| [105] Hans: Carrier versus content I agree with the basketball example in Rambis's [95]. This is a good example of a “carrier”. |
| The relationship between sunlight and daytime is a different kind of relationship. Expressed in the Hegelian paradigm Marx is using, it is a form - content relationship. The rotation of the earth with the periodical exposure to light is the content, which imprints itself on the life rhythm of the animals living on earth. This life rhythm can be considered some kind of form taken by the raw astronomical content. |
| The example with the arctic city illustrates nicely how the form can obtain relative autonomy from the content: even if the animals move into an environment in which there is no longer a periodical change between light during the day and darkness at night, they maintain their life rhythm because this rhythm is now inside them. |
| Interestingly, if left to their own devices, people would switch to a 25 hour day rather than a 24 hour day. This is an example of incongruity between form and content. Marx discusses such incongruities on many places without using the word, but he uses this word explicitly in 195:2/o. |
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