From Complot to Potlatch by Bruno Bosteels

Fire and consummation, this is what our entire life must be, oh you windbags of truth! And the vapor and incense of the sacrifices will live longer than the victims! - Friedrich Nietzsche in Pierre Klossowski, Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle

Another scenario for the collapse of the logic of the commodity is imagined, not in a bank or even in the traditional space of a factory, but in that supreme non-place of the new regime of power, the supermarket, which serves as the principal setting for Chilean Diamela Eltit's novel Mano de obra (Manual Labor, or Labor Power). From its first pages, the text recalls the "enigma" and the "bizarre" or "mystical character" of the famous commodity fetishism described in the first volume of Marx's Capital, including all its "metaphysical subtleties" and "theological niceties. "32 Thus, of the consumers, the narrator who works at the supermarket says: "They touch the products as though they were brushing up against God. They caress them with a fanatical (and religiously precipitated) devotion while they become boastful in the face of the premonition of a sacred, urgent, and tragic resentment. Truthfully. I am in a condition to assert that behind this behavior there hides the molecule of a contaminated mysticism. "33