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**On Commodification**

In the first instance of On Raving, we use the topic of Commodification as a way into some of the areas of music philosophy which Crossdressing Diogenes is interested in. The opening of the essay includes an exploration of "music as an object" in the context of some interesting ideas about music, the ear, and listening offered by Derrida and Nietzsche.

>*Must one first batter their ears, that they may learn to hear with their eyes” (Nietzsche, 2016: 62)*


The essay then follows the notion of a musical object into its eventual entanglement with capital, forming the musical commodity object.