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Journal Article
boundary 2 (2022) 49 (2): 295–313.
Published: 01 May 2022
... to the departed through the burning of simulacra. In Cantonese, the tradition is known as siu yi 燒衣, which translates literally to “burning clothes.” Shops, often located near funeral parlors, cater to those undertaking the ritual and specialize in paper goods of various sorts destined for the consumption...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2019) 46 (3): 181–198.
Published: 01 August 2019
... for humanistic disciplines to address the global commons created by runaway consumption and environmental deterioration. In drawing on the visual images of photographer-artist Shimpei Takeda and the ecocritical work of Timothy Clark, this essay suggests how Miyoshi’s appeal for a new analytical approach...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2011) 38 (1): 101–134.
Published: 01 February 2011
... consumption-oriented discourse. However, the authors argue that in contrast to liberal capitalist societies, where commercial culture tends to devalue the existing democracy, in China commercial culture replaces a Leninist public sphere in which individuals were compelled to participate in a relatively...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2011) 38 (2): 155–187.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Ruth Y. Y. Hung The production, consumption, and state control of Chinese TV serial drama can be seen as an instrument of power and profit maximization as well as a medium for mass education and homogenization in the form of popular culture. The serial drama Woju 蜗居 (Dwelling narrowness) (2009...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2020) 47 (2): 29–48.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Daniel T. O’Hara The large historical transformation from a culture of work and achievement to one of consumption and pleasure, in progressively extreme and democratically available forms, finds its expression in the finest details of fictional, literary artistry. Thomas Mann’s development...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2020) 47 (4): 63–99.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Simon Ryle This essay explores three recent celebrated novels that are concerned with the consumption of meat: Joseph D’Lacey’s Meat , J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello , and Han Kang’s The Vegetarian . The essay develops the critical terms xenoflesh , zoē poetics , and carnojectivity in order...
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...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2014) 41 (1): 101–112.
Published: 01 February 2014
... prefiguring the fate of the
socialist moralization of consumption, Michel de Montaigne (1580) writes,
“The way by which our laws attempt to regulate idle and vain expenses in
meat and clothes, seems to be quite contrary to the end designed. The true
way would be to beget in men a contempt of silks...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2016) 43 (3): 29–77.
Published: 01 August 2016
... dependent
on output in another sector—glut and shortage, and the interruption of pro-
duction as well as consumption, are endemic to capitalism (AC, 7; AK, 13).
But at the systemic level, a different kind of discontinuity prevails. Because
capitalism’s aim is to realize increasing surplus value...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2015) 42 (2): 85–104.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of the disappearance of the proletariat and ignore
the thought of consumption. Without delving into the specifics of Stiegler’s
reworking of Sigmund Freud or his critique of Lyotard,5 it suffices to say here
that a hyperindustrial epoch involves control societies that are “developing
into a cultural...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2018) 45 (1): 201–229.
Published: 01 February 2018
... at home with our Billy bookcases and Poäng chairs,
compensation for the “brouhaha’d blare of the zones” outside. But con-
spicuous consumption functions as distraction from pressing questions of
belonging, segregation, and injustice. Gillis’s Belfast jinks from sloganlands
and painted curbs...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2022) 49 (1): 231–262.
Published: 01 February 2022
... also helped to justify such consumption. In keeping with socialist practices, in the 1960s the Cuban state disregarded the Spanish-derived law pertaining to intellectual copyright in the country, favoring instead the free copying and distribution of books and other cultural products. In 1967...
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Journal Article
boundary 2 (2017) 44 (1): 79–105.
Published: 01 February 2017
... in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with the invention of the steam engine
and mechanized production but also the first railway networks. The second
is the development of Taylorism-Fordism as a new form of capitalism based
primarily on oil, the car industry, and consumption. The third is the finan...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2008) 35 (2): 107–124.
Published: 01 May 2008
... their practices and privileges that stand at odds with
the needs and interests of the broad masses of the people. This ideology
is predicated on the assumption that a national economy consists of two
parts: consumption and investment. If more is spent on investment, less will
be available for consumption...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2021) 48 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 February 2021
... tion also repeated a worry voiced by Empson and others long ago about the abuse of language in civil society, in the mechanisms of consumption and the acquisition of power, and in propaganda. In a time when language aligned with power and mass interaction can level institutions and lives as easily...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2023) 50 (2): 61–91.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of detached spectator with an open horizon of spontaneous participation. In this way, the avant-garde attack on autonomous art took aim at the division of labor itself, to which it responded with attempts to supersede the separation between production and consumption. In the realm of literature, Tristan...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2004) 31 (3): 101–124.
Published: 01 August 2004
... study of the recent development of Chinese
cinema. Two concepts may need clarification here. In terms of globaliza-
tion, I refer specifically to China’s integration into global media consumption,
which is contingent upon the tensions between the call by the World Trade
Organization (WTO) for an open...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2003) 30 (1): 89–104.
Published: 01 February 2003
... the attribution to fashion of a deathly lustrous-
ness, though, is the central aesthetic claim of Benjamin’s book: that Baude-
laire’s poetry does not merely represent commodification and consumption,
does not merely name...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2021) 48 (3): 145–168.
Published: 01 August 2021
.... The first thing the casual observer might find problematic is what appears to be an equivalence between the civic action of voting and an object from the universe of consumption. At the same time, the catalog revealed what was in front of everyone's eyes: that under the neoliberal technocratic management...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2017) 44 (3): 73–97.
Published: 01 August 2017
... is a peculiar figure around
which to launch a critique of luxury or consumption because he is not a
worker, not productive, which means that once you’ve spotted hiking’s cen-
trality to The Task, you might wonder whether the poem is really a georgic
at all. The poet may be walking across other people’s...
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