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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"Mode of production"”.
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The New Economy of the United States: A New Mode of Production?
… gurus have been writing about the development of a New Economy in the United States. According to New Economy supporters, the recent technological developments in information technology and the expansion of globalization are changing the economy, producing increases in productivity, and …
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The Logistical Mode of Production: Logistics as a Total Way of Life
… is being reshaped by the increasing centrality of logistical science to everyday lived experience. Formerly confined to the governance of commodity chains, logistics’ influence has grown into a pervasive social rationality that promotes endless circulation and perpetual uncertainty as …
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Neither Capitalist Nor Wage-Labourer: An Economic Examination of the Exceptionalism of Artistic Production vis-à-vis the Capitalist Mode of Production
… through the book Art and Value in the context of the practice of the Freee art collective. This thesis situates Art and Value within contemporary art practices and debates. Art and Value addresses itself directly to misrecognitions of the relationship between art and capitalism within the …
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Collaboration and Integration: A Method of Advancing Film Sound Based on The Coen Brothers' Use of Sound and Their Mode of Production. Volume 1.
For the majority of cinema history, the film industry has treated sound as a less integral ingredient in the filmmaking process. This has translated into working practices that have marginalised sound's contribution and have divided personnel. Joel and Ethan Coen's mode of production stands in …
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Collaboration and Integration: A Method of Advancing Film Sound Based on The Coen Brothers’ Use of Sound and Their Mode of Production. Volume 2.
For the majority of cinema history, the film industry has treated sound as a less Integral ingredient In the filmmaking process. This has translated into working practices that have marginalised sound's contribution and have divided personnel. Joel and Ethan Coen's mode of production stands in …
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Changing relationship with the land and one another in Pindoyú, Paraguay
… is about agricultural transition in the face of globalization in the community of Pindoyú, Paraguay. Utilizing the extended case study method, the experiences of people of Pindoyú are documented through partcipant observation, individual and household interviews, and auto-ethnographies in …
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Modes of Manuscript Book Production in Late Medieval England with special reference to British Library, Harley MS 3810/I and Related Manuscripts
… manuscript which is known primarily as being one of only three surviving witnesses to the short Middle English romance, ‘Sir Orfeo’: London, British Library, Harley MS 3810/I. This study presents a new codicological description of this unassuming fifteenth-century manuscript and shows that, rather …
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Marx's theory of alienation and the commodification of water in South Africa
This dissertation uses Marx's theory of alienation in seeking to give a fuller understanding of the commodification of domestic water. As such, it also focuses on the socio-historical process of the provision of water through privatisation in the dominant mode of production: capitalism in its …
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Radical Turns From Gramsci To Negri. Life, Biopolitics And Social Change In Italy
In this work I investigate the concept of biopolitics as it emerges in the particular historical setting of twentieth and twenty-first Century Italy. Framing biopolitics as the foregrounding of labor-power, i.e. of the potential to produce, I define three historical moments in which this notion is …
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FROM SLAVE TO FREE LABOR IN THE BRAZILIAN SUGAR INDUSTRY: THE POLITICAL-ECONOMY OF SOCIAL CONTROL AND CRIME IN PERNAMBUCO, 1850-1922
<p>Between 1850 and the turn of the century the dominant mode of production in the export sector of Pernambuco shifted from a slave to quasi-capitalist. The labor transition was not an evolutionary outgrowth of existing work relations--it involved struggle and coercion. The first part of this …
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Aesthetic Redemption: Psychedelia, Film, and Walter Benjamin’s Sensory Revolution
… the ways in which the psychedelic nature of film, as posited by Walter Benjamin, has the potential to precipitate class consciousness and lead to humanity’s emancipation from anaesthetizing capitalist forces. We first explore Benjamin’s relationship to, and understanding of, Marxist …
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State and Capital Accumulation: Mining Industry in Indonesia
… mining industry in Indonesia. Karl Marx's theory of rent under capitalist mode of production (Marx, 1981), as social/class relations, is utilized to provide a conceptual framework of such peculiar relations. While this framework consists of many different but interrelated parts, my focus is the …
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PlusShorts : using punctuation as an iconic system for describing and augmenting video structure
… video hosting websites are combining to offer an alternative mode of production and channel of distribution for independent filmmakers and home moviemakers. There is a growing need to develop systems that meaningfully support the desires of these filmmakers to communicate and collaborate …
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Lei N° 13.415/2017: contra-ataque tecnicista e a intensificação da dualidade estrutural no Ensino Médio brasileiro.
… enacted in February 2017, from the category of structural duality, characterized in the material bases of capitalist production relations present in Brazilian society. The object of the research consists of the articles: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, which make changes to Section IV, Chapter I, Title V …
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Phantasms of Hope: The Utopian Function of Fantasy Literature
… genre. However, Ernst Bloch’s Marxist theory of a utopian anticipatory consciousness and his concept of nonsynchronism recognize a progressive, utopian function within the archetypes and allegories of fairy tales, a precursor to modern fantasy. Bloch argues that archetypes are not static …
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TO THRIVE, WORK, AND LIVE: PROGRESS TOWARD AND CHALLENGES TO SUSTAINABILITY ON THE FREI GONDIM SETTLEMENT, PERNAMBUCO, BRAZIL
The sugar plantation zone of Pernambuco, Brazil, with a conservative culture forged out of chattel slave history, has been the most challenging region for the Brazilian landless peasants movement to penetrate in order to implement agrarian reform. The movement founded the Frei Gondim Settlement in …
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To Have Done with Forgiveness: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Politics of Immanence
… essay seeks to formulate a critical account of the genealogical link between capitalism and Christianity by interrogating the ontology and the processes of subjectivization which subtend these two apparently disparate social and political formations. To this end, I make use of the …
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Spirit, desire and the world: Roho churches of western Kenya in the era of globalization
This thesis is a study of the Roho churches of Vihiga District, Western Kenya, from their beginnings in 1927 to the present. After an initial historical overview of this group of African Independent Churches, it examines their creation of a vernacular theology – the founders’ vision. This was …
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Cineplastic : temporal paradox in the movement-image medium
… contemporary design practice is lost in time. Modernity's predilection of spatial constructs over temporal ones continues to cast a lingering epistemological shadow regarding a theory of event in design processes. The impossibility of 'empirical data' as given and fixed in design 'strategies' …
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