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I’ve excerpted a bit of this before, but here’s all of Werner Hamacher’s “Working Through Working”, Modernism/Modernity, 3:1, 1996, pp23-56 - well, minus the footnotes:

A blockquote post, an excerpt from Werner Hamacher’s “Guilt History Benjamin’s Sketch ‘Capitalism as Religion’” - Diacritics 32.3-4 (2002) - while I recover from glandular and finish some writing.

[…] That which is “already recognizable in the present in the religious structure of capitalism” is shown by Benjamin in three features—and a fourth that lies in the unrecognizability of its God.