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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"fetishism"”.
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The tragedy of Islamism in Britain: a fetishism for politics
… self-representation of those groups. Moreover, a fetishism for politics (i.e., a repression and denial of engagement in the political arena) deflects the interaction between the dominant and the dominated groups (in this case, the UK Government and Islamist parties in the UK) and ultimately …
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Objects and Object Fetishism in Italian Short Stories: 1930-1959
… of objects and of the phenomenon of object fetishism in Italian short stories written between 1930 and 1959. The examination of the recurrence and representation of these motifs offers both a viable route for an exploration of the impact on literature of the rise of material culture during …
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Ethical Becoming, Ethical Fetishism, and Capitalist Modernity: An Ethnography of Design Education
… 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 constituting the …
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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.
… 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 labour’ and …
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Wanting to Do What's Right
… that such a desire amounts to a kind of moral fetishism. This dissertation lays out the groundwork for a new way of thinking about what it is to want to do what is right as such. The central task (which is the topic of chapter 1) is to provide a new account of moral fetishism that allows us to …
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Unhappy Consciousness: Recognition and Reification in Victorian Fiction
… 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 saw, in the …
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The problem of subjectivity in Marxism: Karl Marx, George Lukacs and Antonio Gramsci
… 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 framework, I show …
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Bodies of Correspondence in Contemporary Quebec: from Gabrielle Roy to le vrai Gab Roy
… and Trolls: The Monstrum horrendum of Epistolary Fetishism,” seizes upon epistolary theorist Vincent Kaufmann’s suggestion that the letter writer is the “yéti de la littérature” (literature’s yeti), and places this fantastic formulation alongside the more recent imagining of the internet …
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Classical Masculinity in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
… Roman man. I then deliberate his sexual fetishism for the matriarch pharaoh, and how their relationship functions as sadomasochistic, defining Antony as the masochist and Cleopatra as the sadist. In conclusion, I focus on Antony’s suicide, and determine the masculine value of his final …
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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 British …
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Delirio: The fantastic, the demonic, and the reel narratives from Nuevo Leon
… moments. These phantasms move towards fiction, fetishism, or writing that is authorized by local dogma. In these movements, these narratives establish and maintain the identity and ideology of a place. Delirio focuses on those phantasms that have been pushed to the margin. If the scriptural …
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Images as tools of social control: an analysis of the production of identities in contemporary mass-culture
… 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 process …
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Baristas: The artisan precariat
… 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 service …
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Anxieties and artificial women: disassembling the pop culture gynoid
… gynoid: The Stepford Wives performs necrophilic fetishism to alleviate anxieties about the Women's Liberation Movement; Ex Machina redirects technological anxieties towards the surveilling practices of tech industries, simultaneously punishing exploitive masculine fantasies; Westworld utilizes …
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The eyewitness in American specular narrative : empiricism, representation, and the gaze
… A Hoosier Holiday, and how the specular fetishism of the nonfiction novel, particularly Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, problematizes narrative objectivity and sutures the reader into the narrative as eyewitness
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Walter Benjamin and Kitsch Politics in the Phantasmagorical Age
… 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 political,” the …
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Salman Rushdie in the Postmodern Current: New Venues, New Values
… 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 writer. </p>
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Religious objects and performance : testing the role of materiality
… negotiated. Using the discourses of animism and fetishism to test the role of materiality, this thesis further considers how making offerings to statues exemplifies a form of Western animism (different from Tylorean animism where alien spirits inhabit dead matter) where objects and subjects bring …
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Traps and tools: a contextual critique of the right to development in international law
… of economic determinism and methodological fetishism are identified and critiqued. In delving into the dichotomies of orthodox/unorthodox, visible/invisible, norms/structures, rights/emancipation and regulation/deregulation, this thesis draws methodological insights from Sousa Santos’ (2007) …
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Towards a New Currency of Economic Criticism
… will serve to expose a penchant for material fetishism in economic criticism and provide a theory of currency, value, and exchange that contextualizes representational and material notions of value within the social and economic system that provides the processes and mechanisms of value …
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