Collect ‘em All!
On Scarcity, Abundance, Collection, and Territorial Pissing. On Todd Verow’s 2012 ‘Bottom,’ Éric Rohmer’s 1967 ‘La Collectionneuse,’ and Luc Moullet’s 1989 ‘Les Sièges de l'Alcazar’
This piece is about, among other things, collecting and commodification, scarcity and value, and before getting into the swing of things I’d like to address a few minor matters pertaining to the economics of this Substack. If you have no interest in such gibble-gabble, the “fun” begins in earnest after the page break.
Production on the “value-added” phys…