... Reading PL 480 libraries books as commodities ...

... This personal essay tells the story of the discovery of reading. It uses A. K. Ramanujan’s short story “Annayya’s Anthropology” and other Indian fiction to discuss books from India and Pakistan as commodities exchanged for wheat from the U.S. under the PL 480 library program. Reading PL...

... Forest Lost’s introduction presents the book’s focus on efforts to make the living forest and its carbon valuable in the Brazilian Amazon. Forest carbon is a strange commodity, the introduction suggests, because it requires not the extraction entailed in the production of many other tropical...

... of Georgia Cannery in Steveston, British Columbia, refabricated in Beijing, China) animates its contemporary significance. Examining how Ting’s sculpture recontextualizes the original machine, the epilogue reflects on the aesthetic and biological dimensions of capitalism that are tracked through the book...

..., tools and implements, books and things, commodities and trade goods. place space gender Māori missionaries ...

... This introduction sets out the key concerns of the book as a whole. It argues that the cross-cultural engagements that were produced by imperial activity initiated significant social and cultural change for indigenous and tribal societies such as Māori. It suggests that the cross-cultural...

... fiction and foundational category that is race. First, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, the Atlantic slave trade transformed Africans on the basis of skin color into human-commodities and human-money. Second, the eighteenth to twentieth centuries witnessed emerging consciousness among...

...Reading This personal essay tells the story of the discovery of reading. It uses A. K. Ramanujan’s short story “Annayya’s Anthropology” and other Indian fiction to discuss books from India and Pakistan as commodities exchanged for wheat from the U.S. under the PL 480 library program...

... wherein there are actors from states, transnational organizations, communities, and social movements within and beyond what this book analyzes as the civil society agenda. Afro-Latin America black politics racial state race cycles social movements This chapter analyzes the demands of women...

... in the Crystal Palace. Chapter 10 is designed to show that this other Western route forms the beginnings of what we call modernity. This opens on to the power of real subsumption; of the phantasmagorical in the commodity form; and of market desires that require a reduction in political tensions. From the Crystal...

... The first part of the book argues that, far from approaching a common good life for all living things, the planet retreats from itself as the commodity form colonizes more and more of it. This condition is the opposite of the true, the just, the good, or the beautiful: It is anaesthetic...

.... Chapter 10 is designed to show that this other Western route forms the beginnings of what we call modernity. This opens on to the power of real subsumption; of the phantasmagorical in the commodity form; and of market desires that require a reduction in political tensions. From the Crystal Palace...

... or immaterial objects, within the market mode, it always takes the form of a commodity. The system of market veridiction now extended and expanded beyond industry into the calculation, calibration, and profitability of emotions, thrills, and heightened sensations. Eiffel Tower Ferris Wheel assembly line...

... the symbolism on coins, dangerous thought and political controversy gradually fade into habit. Daring, edgy, and dangerous forms and thoughts can gradually gain wider acceptance in our commodified society but only once they have been reconceptualized as phantasmagoric elements in the commodity form. civic...

... Across modernity, Africa and the Black Man ( le Nègre ) became signs of an alterity impossible to assimilate. The terms became linked as early capitalism transformed enslaved Africans into Blacks, and Blacks into commodities. “Africa” designated less a geography than a racial condition...

... This chapter examines how media advocacy initiatives aiming to eliminate coerced child labor dematerialize the role of children’s creative work in the production of humanitarian commodities. The chapter centers around the film Born into Brothels (2004), which documents the training of brothel...

... in the commodity form. civic culture habitualized abstraction homo economus Weber phantasmagoric ...

..., Stollmeyer made oil boring. emancipation racism asphalt utopianism Trinidad Oil comes packaged in a powerful, increasingly deadly jargon. Petroleum professionals speak of “upstream” and “downstream” as segments of an uninterruptable commodity chain. In so doing, they perpetuate a myth...