[Reader-list] discussing residue

[Jeebesh Bagchi]

Dear Rana, Pratap etal.,

Lets take a few sites and see how we can elaborate on this concept `residue`.

- If we look at the mega-sports industry (from cricket to football and 
everything above below and between) we hear about performances, glories and 
`loss of form`. But there is another story that keeps flowing underneath the 
`main story` which is of injuries, burn-outs, fatalities and "not good 
enough". This underneath i would consider as part of the `residue` of the 
system of the industry. 

- The feeling of being `thrown out` after being drained of all possible 
`potential energy` as a working body and mind - this is a very everyday 
feeling for many. "Chilka banake phek diya` (reduced to a husk and thrown) is 
a common refrain that you will hear in most intensive work zones. These days 
the phrase `early burn out` is also very common in many high intensity 
professions, including managerial ones. These feelings and utterances could 
hint towards an understanding of `residue`.

- Thousands of non-capitalist commodity producers (simple commodity 
producers, primarily peasants & artisans) face survival threats from the 
larger commodity transcations that they enter on a daily basis. These 
transactions produce another kind of `residue`. 

Living labour not required within the logic of the `mode of production` 
always finds itself thrown away. This thrown away state can be called residue.

best
Jeebesh