Excursus Counterfeiting

Working in Japan, the money artist Akasegawa also explored the relationship between capitalism and state authority. His notes were not counterfeit, but simulacra, and as such they put into question the validity of all money by mocking the yen. Like Boggs, Akasegawa was also severely prosecuted. 

But where the adulteration of bread develops parallel to the development of a class of capitalist bakers and the extension of the working day and night, the same cannot be said of alchemy. 

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