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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"late capitalism"”.
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Walking in Late Capitalism - Dialectic of Aestheticization and Commodification
… principles of modernity and the forces of capitalism, this struggle is co-opted by the logic of capital in a continuous interlacing of the processes of aestheticization and commodification. The social and spatial consequences of capitalism together with the process of aestheticization of …
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From Affect to Value: towards a Deleuzian approach to creative production and control in late capitalism
… by Deleuze and Guattari’s understandings of capitalism as both a deterritorializing and reterritorializing force. I will argue that the generative power for graphic design is drawn from a level that Deleuze and Guattari describe as the body without organs, which is affective in composition. …
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Mirroring Financial Speculation and Late Capitalism Through Speculative Fiction: Worker Gullibility and Guilt as Re-imagination of Human Value
… to the cultural logic of Wall Street and late capitalism. However, the privilege of working in a tech company in an up-and-coming industry does not shield him from experiencing the oftentimes destructive logic of financial speculation and in-built structural inequalities. This paper makes …
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Carnisaurs and Capital: Assertion and Preservation of Hegemony in the Novels of Michael Crichton
… and Ernst Mandel's analysis of the ideology of late capitalism, this thesis examines the novels of Michael Crichton, contending that while his novels provide the semblance of critiquing the present epoch, the novels in fact reify the powerful "ideology of the specialist" as the novels assert the …
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Wood
… - defining an idealized man in the age of late capitalism.
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Salman Rushdie in the Postmodern Current: New Venues, New Values
… not only assures the hegemonic discourse of late capitalism but also reflects an imperialist political stance. This will be demonstrated by considering Rushdie's manipulation in his novels of alternate history, cultural modes of production such as commodity fetishism and media, postmodernism …
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The Fallacy of Cultural Authenticity: The Simulacra and Cultural Appropriation in the Free Market through the Lens of Literature
… Experience: The Fallacy of Memory & Influence of Late Capitalism on the Cultural Experience in Julian Barnes’ <em>England, England</em></p>
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Constructing a Politics of Knowledge in the Age of the Internet
… of information technology infrastructures in late capitalism, the control society, and reflexive modernization. As these social and political theories operate across academic disciplines and organizational systems, new formulations of knowledge production arise such as transdisciplinary …
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Critical Experiential Learning And Rhetorical Interventions In New Media Ecologies
… dilemmas: the neglect of affect, agency in late-capitalism, and critical literacy in new media ecologies. Each chapter defines the dilemma, offers a theoretical response, and details a possible pedagogical application for the composition classroom.</p>
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The Antioch Debacle: A Corporatist Misadventure in Higher Education
… University Board of Trustees announced a unilateral decision to close Antioch College, a school with a 150-year legacy of cultural and educational innovation. This thesis seeks to situate this closure within the framework of current trends in higher education, and to illustrate how a radical …
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Seeing selves and others: rethinking 'the tourist gaze' of township tourism as inter-subjectivity in Cape Town, South Africa
… Africa, that does not pardon the proclivities of late capitalism to widen the gaps of social stratification, but rather questions its determinism in shaping subjectivities.
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Living on the Edge of Burnout: Defamiliarizing Neoliberalism Through Cyberpunk Science Fiction
… diagnosis of postmodernism as the logic of late capitalism, using Jameson's spatial pastiche, schizophrenic temporality, and waning of affect, along with Jameson's characterization of Baudrillard's simulacrum to interpret postmodern cultural artifacts. For many cultural critics, the city of …
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“Where Are We?": New Directions and Global Turns in the American Southern Gothic of the 21st Century
… imperialist practices of globalization and late capitalism/neoliberalism continue to uproot and unsettle traditional notions of American place and space, reconfiguring our preconceived understanding of regional identities and traditions. I first examine these novel iterations of “placeless” …
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Exploring the New Front of the Culture War: <i>1984, Oryx and Crake,</i> and Cultural Hegemony
… of the postmodern period and the onset of late capitalism as defined by cultural critic Fredrick Jameson. Using the theory of Jameson and other postmodern theorists, an exploration of the dystopic novels or Orwell and Atwood reveals how cultural hegemony has been implemented and altered …
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Concrete Reality: The Posthuman Landscapes of J.G. Ballard
… material conditions of human urbanization and late capitalism. Nearly all of Ballard’s novels are as much about locations undergoing a crisis as they are about individuals or communities coming to embrace some extended period of human hysteria. His characters in The Drought, Concrete Island, …
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Playful Labors: Narrative, Work and Digital Games
… the ways in which the labor of players is translated into different forms of value, and the economic impact of games on the cultural landscape. Second, I argue that god games possess elements of what Frederic Jameson calls ""an aesthetic of cognitive mapping."" Such an aesthetic seeks to …
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The politics of consumerism : understanding the role of consumption in the political economy
Were the social activity that most defines late capitalism to be named consumption would be nominated as the predominant leisure pastime of the current period. Since the well-being of a society is measured along material co-ordinates, high rates of consumption are taken as signs of an overall …
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Presenting Korea's Past: Melodrama, Spectacle, and Democracy in Post-2000 Historical Films
… the genre and suggests that the newly articulated innocence is one of the determinants of the revival of genre. However, the specific nature of innocence and how it is delivered varies. This dissertation demonstrates that because of an intensification of globalization and resistance to late …
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Discursive strategies within Thatcherism: family and market representations in its rhetoric and Community Care Documents
… key social and economic conditions relating to "late capitalism" or more, exactly, the model of flexible accumulation and market regulation prevalent in Britain during the eighties. I conclude by arguing that if language does have a role in power relations, then it can be useful for policy …
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