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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"commodity fetishism"”.
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“Working out our melancholy, our muscles and our masculinities” Depression, anomie, alienation, commodity fetishism, body-modification and masculinity in a de-industrialised Northumbrian Town.
… relevant the theories of anomie, alienation and commodity fetishism are to users of Gym D today. I consider how the ‘mass sadness’ that afflicts my participants’ lived experiences can be accounted for and contextualised by the theories. Secondly, this work considers how my participants’ ‘gym …
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Bodies: Punk, Love and Marxism
… from the love-of-love-songs, and from commodity fetishism and alienation, which relate to this recuperated love qua perception or experience. As its musical output exhibited residue of free love’s failure, and cited sixties pop which characterized love as mutual ownership, American and …
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The problem of subjectivity in Marxism: Karl Marx, George Lukacs and Antonio Gramsci
… pre-figures the development of his theory of commodity fetishism. This theory addresses the problem of the authentic or quasi-subjectivity of capital.<br/>This theme is developed through an exploration of the obstacles confronting proletarian subjectivity in Marx’s Capital. Within this …
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Images as tools of social control: an analysis of the production of identities in contemporary mass-culture
… with respect to mass-culture, entrenching commodity-fetishism and systems of stereotypes which play a vital role in determining social norms. These "stereotypes" are continually being adapted in order to facilitate the illusion of being new, relevant and fashionable. At the same time this …
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Baristas: The artisan precariat
… of capitalism, specifically the application of commodity fetishism to workers by customers, colleagues, managers, capital and at times themselves. Commodity fetishism dehumanises workers, creating an empathy gap between customers/managers and workers. As such, the commodity fetishisation of …
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Walter Benjamin and Kitsch Politics in the Phantasmagorical Age
… that within the objective impenetrability of commodity fetishism a “sur-real” world of fetishized images – that is, kitsch – emerges, alienated from the individual and the collective, yet constituting and shaping them. By mapping out the implications of this “sur-real” world on “the …
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Salman Rushdie in the Postmodern Current: New Venues, New Values
… history, cultural modes of production such as commodity fetishism and media, postmodernism or the cultural logic of late capitalism, and historiographic metafiction; furthermore, these features of postmodernism which Rushdie uses in his recent novels indicate his position as a postmodern …
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Unhappy Consciousness: Recognition and Reification in Victorian Fiction
… novel and their relation to Marx's concept of commodity fetishism. Victorian recognition scenes often show a hero's self-discovery as a retrospective identification with things. When, for example, in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, Isabel Archer learns the truth about her marriage: "She …
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Feminism for Sale: Commodity Feminism, Femininity, and Subjectivity
… feminist discourses. This dissertation theorizes commodity feminism, a play on Marxs conception of commodity fetishism, at the intersections of Marx/Marxism, feminist theory, and Freud/Freudianism. My method involves exploring a series of relationships through reading canonical and contemporary …
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Out of Time: Temporal Colonization and the Writing of Mexican American Subjectivity
… congressional proceedings, Manifest Destiny, commodity fetishism, intellectual production, historical narrative, and sociological discourse. I historically situate Mexican American experiences of US time through María Amparo Ruiz de Burtons depiction of capitalist forms of time in The Squatter …
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Make me yours: the psychodynamics of seduction through works of art
… games between Johannes and Cordelia; Karl Marx’s commodity fetishism; Naia del Castillo’s works, which are linked to Surrealist concerns, and Jacques Lacan’s mysterious objet petit a, the object cause of desire. All these play a part in delineating seduction. My own (nearly missed) encounter with …
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Ethical Becoming, Ethical Fetishism, and Capitalist Modernity: An Ethnography of Design Education
… creating hauntings within designs. Notions of commodity fetishism and dead labor are utilized to further theorize the concept of ethical fetishism and, in doing so, to imagine new ways both to reveal design's ghostly relations and then to value them for the creative role each plays in …
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Der Begriff der Aura und einer Kunst ohne Aura im Werk von Walter Benjamin
… as a metaphysical paradisical condition. The commodity structure stands as a paradigm for modern perception and experience. Commodity fetishism denies the subject an auratic interaction and the relation between subject and object is phantasmagoria!. An auratic perception or experience is …
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Growing pains: scale and mission in the fair trade textile sector
<p>This thesis examines the recent incorporation of factory production into fair trade textile production via a new fair trade certification program called the Apparel and Linens Program, launched by FairTrade USA. I argue that this expansion in the scale of production results in a dilution of fair …
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A Critical Analysis of the Culture of Consumption: A Running Curriculum
<p>In utilizing critical theory to analyze the culture of consumption in school and in society, this work examines how the individual is becoming increasingly marginalized in a consumer world where the ethic of consumption is constantly reinforced via hegemony. My analysis and examination also …
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Everything (Old was New) Already: Theories, Histories, and Politics of Appropriation, Contemporary Art, and Culture
The past decade and a half of technological innovation and explosion of historical multiplicities have reignited the debates on appropriation. This dissertation contributes to the discussion for the purposes of understanding appropriation’s significance to our fluctuating conceptions of …