Fictional  discourse  and erotic  discourse are approached, following Marx’s Grundrisse, as literary genres that are in capitalism also (often primarily) commodities. Sections: 1. Cognitive Discourse as Commodity: The Novum as Fashion; 2. Press and Sex: A Homology; 3. Cognition and Prostitution: Holy Commodity. Benjamin, Brecht, Poe and Tocqueville are used.