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Journal Article
boundary 2 (2014) 41 (1): 101–112.
Published: 01 February 2014
... that such a disposition would be irrelevant in the case of socialism, known for its ideology of productivism and its practice of consumer shortage. I will argue that, in fact, Soviet-style societies were based on a similar logic, even if the “elsewheres” generating desire were castigated by propaganda and considered...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (1): 5–18.
Published: 01 February 2017
... of sensibility that led to a proletarianization of the amateur so that the latter, having lost his or her knowledges, became a cultural consumer . These questions confront us today in a time in which a second machinic turn of sensibility is taking place. This second turn is made possible by digital technologies...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 67–97.
Published: 01 May 2009
... the “sweatshop sublime” and to popular notions of ethical consumption and argue that Gibson's coolhunter is a modified type of ethical consumer, a person able to map economic systems onto personal meanings as meanings, translating the behavior of the market not into a more just price point at the mall...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 47–73.
Published: 01 August 2012
... for foreign undergraduate student “consumers.” The two processes are transforming the university, with pressures to shift the context of higher education from the national to the global that have important institutional and educational consequences. Cultural globalization and the emergence of a “transnational...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (3): 55–61.
Published: 01 August 2015
... government readily ignores any demonstrations by ordinary people against its policies. At the same time, Japanese corporations are largely immune to any efforts by laborers and consumers to resist their activities. The consequences for civil society are stark. Given the absence of a vital organized labor...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 59–86.
Published: 01 August 2013
... project for Wallace. At the same time that he critiques the postmodern parochialism of the US culture industries, he uses his proleptic style to force his readers into experiencing dread when encountering American consumer culture. Ultimately, Wallace takes himself to be an example of the sort of limited...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (1): 79–105.
Published: 01 February 2017
... does not target the
welfare state as such since it has been continuously under attack from the
1970s onward. Instead, he attempts to reformulate the political question in
terms of consumerism and even “hyperconsumption.” “The consumer is
the new proletarian figure, and the proletariat, very far...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2020) 47 (2): 29–48.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of the psychological romance, the modern psychomachia, of narration amid the personae of character, narrator (and what kind of narrator), implicated author, and a newly activated and yet indulgently consuming reader, participates in a widespread game of aesthetic interpellation that leads to what contemporary...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2022) 49 (1): 231–262.
Published: 01 February 2022
... media piracy. I show how the state's history of contravening international copyright provided justification for piracy and how cultural producers and consumers worked to reconcile revolutionary aspirations for socialist art with the influx of global entertainment and the rise of new forms of local...
FIGURES
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2005) 32 (2): 151–167.
Published: 01 May 2005
... of consumer spontaneity and the hint of trouble, 2003 had only the
hallmark of a well-oiled advertising campaign within an established indus-
try, the Mao industry. There is something perversely ironic in this regular
reappearance of the chairman at a time when the new long march toward
consumerism...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2015) 42 (2): 85–104.
Published: 01 May 2015
... the opportunity to move the figure of the proletarian from the side
of producer to the side of consumer, something unthought of in Marx, and
something that allows him to declare that with this new figure of the prole-
tarian/consumer “the proletariat, very far from disappearing, is a condition
from which...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2016) 43 (3): 29–77.
Published: 01 August 2016
...-
logical) comparability, it signifies the truth and origin of social reproduction
in contexts where the socializing function of capital is no longer deemed
efficacious, but in the derivative dream image of the primordial. Moreover,
like use-value, it appears to be consumed by capitalism...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2022) 49 (2): 295–313.
Published: 01 May 2022
... may be just a story. It is just the sort of story that a thinker such as Pfaller unfolds with his own examples about the unconscious and unexamined rituals of relief from and perverse resistance to the demands to consume. Moreover, might such storytelling itself be a form of resistance or mischievous...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 101–137.
Published: 01 August 2013
...
as though it were an immense reservoir of electrical energy. . . . A
blockhead! a blockhead! and I despise him!
—Charles Baudelaire, “The Painter of Modern Life”
In spectacle even alienation is turned into an image for the alienated
to consume.
—Hal Foster, Recordings...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2008) 35 (1): 85–108.
Published: 01 February 2008
... monsters “embody the violent contradictions of
capitalism,” see Annalee Newitz, Pretend We’re Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American
Pop Culture (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006). For a discussion of images of
the undead in Marx, see Robert Latham, Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2018) 45 (1): 253–272.
Published: 01 February 2018
..., and the Real Ireland, at the
same time.
Island of Saints and Seekers
Slavoj Žižek has argued that the point of advertising in late capital-
ism has shifted from a focus on the product to the freedom of the consumer.
What matters, advertisements tell us, is not the car but what you do...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2020) 47 (4): 63–99.
Published: 01 November 2020
... . Meatonomics: How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much—and How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter. San Francisco : Conari Press . Simpson David . 2013 . Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Sinclair...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (1): 35–52.
Published: 01 February 2017
... of grammatization, such that the
new mystagogy inaugurated by Duchamp is able to make its appearance.
With the industrial apparatus arises the proletarian consumer as
well as producer. However, the new technological apparatus that imposes
itself at the start of our twenty-first century itself induces...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2001) 28 (2): 259–262.
Published: 01 May 2001
... Chaos: Chaos Theory and Metachaotics in Recent
American Fiction. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.
Sussman, Charlotte. Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender, and British
Slavery, 1713–1833. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000.
Sussman, Henry, and Christopher...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2011) 38 (1): 101–134.
Published: 01 February 2011
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modity for the express purpose of making money. The advertising-driven
media offer powerful propaganda for consumerism and tend to favor private
over public values. Second, while market forces give the Chinese media the
appearance of being an undirected “postmodern collage,” the CCP still has...
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