... rationality. Third, I show how such practices of market commensuration depend on a range of evaluative devices that create environments of equivalence and hierarchical difference, explicating how these devices have come to play an increasingly important role in contemporary digital culture. I then discuss...

...Stanley Raffel This article seeks to develop the significance of the 1960s as a period of cultural revolution. Early Baudrillard is treated as the cultural revolution's equivalent to Marx. The idea of unproductive expenditure is seen as the era's central idea. having discussed, as does Baudrillard...

...Lambert Wiesing The aim of this article is to introduce the idea of a phenomenology of luxury. The thesis is that luxury cannot be a characteristic of things or of actions, but that it arises through a private aesthetic experience, which can be identified as a functional equivalent to play...

.... This is the “postmodern” according to Nancy, which “[gives] up any aim for a future conceived of as the unity of a meaning to come” (37). This is also how the “after” in the phrase “after Fukushima” marks its distinction from any equivalence to Theodor Adorno’s question about whether poetry is possible “after Auschwitz...

..., as far as possible, to be withdrawn from the laws of the market. This withdrawal consisted in conferring incomparable qualities on commodities, by virtue of which they seemed to have no equivalent, and hence not to appear as mere commodities. The commercial value (price) of the products...

...Figure 6 Digital still from “simulator/realtime” video work by Gair Dunlop. Footage made in the simulator was paired with its nonvirtual equivalent and projected in a cinematic space. ...

.... In these writings, translation does not involve a commitment to a politics of equivalence but points beyond consensus, correspondence, and commensurability, involving a process of identifying and mobilizing conflictual capacities. Such a notion of translation offers a heuristic device with which to approach...

.... As political activity consists of an on-going and open-ended contest for power, the authors explain that comparison should not be about trying to draw functional equivalents between societies. Rather, it should consist in the painstaking work of “thick description,” engaging in the reconstruction of actions...

... orifice, but conversely from its closure – paint being as it were the trace of the phallic, the mark that institutes its phallic exchange-value : an erectile mouth. (1993: 103) While the phallus as a “general equivalent” is fetishized, “an immense labour of phallic simulation at the same time...

... little to say and her past actions do not constitute a discursive form. Barbary is clearly not brimful of anxious content; indeed, it may well be that Barbary is suffering from emptiness—a directionless emptiness—a wilderness. And this is where the equivalence exists between the physical wilderness...

... between light and matter is viewed in terms of an “energetic equivalence,” but for Virilio this is understood only as a way of annotating the dromological intensity of our new electric-magnetic forms of worldhood (and it is for this reason that the relationship between light and tempo-rality looms large...

... the world with a single, authoritative voice is thereby overruled. Third, many believe that television entertainment is in keeping with market demand, which will help develop the entertainment industry and increase profits. And finally, entertainment is not equivalent to vulgarity. Although it has become...

... standardizing appearances, and what is needed now is an understanding of the transformation of scale in order to produce new equivalences, commensurate with the forces humans have unleashed. Andrew Fisher takes up a similar point that the machinic doesn't make the human obsolete to understanding photography...

... be articulated in a chain of equivalences that identifies them in terms of their opposition to an Other as constitutive outside. This is what is at stake in Bloom's encounter with Dublin's Cyclopes: Nelson, hero of the British Empire on the one hand, and the subaltern Irish nationalist Citizen on the other...

... in the 1990s ( McKay 1996) —which produce distinct cultures, and in Occupy. Occupy Wall Street can even be read as a parallel state inasmuch as it organized its own volunteer health and welfare services. This is, despite or because of its ephemerality, equivalent to what Henri Lefebvre called a moment...

... Major Bauman was responsible for furnishing sound political guidance to the military ranks in Warsaw during the late 1940s and early 1950s. More recently, as a distinguished academic elder statesman, he provided us with equivalent intellectual guidance well into the twenty-first century. He established...

... in a laboratory where temperatures and pressures equivalent to those in the planet's outer core can be synthesized by compressing a sample to a thickness of just a few microns between two diamonds while heating it with a laser. Processes that occur in a subterranean layer more than two thousand kilometers thick...

... of stupidity. In this way, everything becomes semi-sacred, relative in the pejorative sense of equivalent – or, in other words, equally useless, because it seems that nothing new can be said. And yet, not all items of knowledge are equal. Not everything is equivalent. My grandma Gardenia will never manage...

... is incorporated into the previous two with more rigor and many more “flourishes,” its name is pujao . A conversation is established between the three drums, which is maintained for a period of time. That conversation is led by the first drummer, who is the “cousin,” and in the simile I am doing, it is equivalent...