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Totality in a Box: The Shipping Container from Commodity to Allegory
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 163–197.
Published: 01 June 2023
... and represents, however, is not the whole of a frictionless and seamless accumulation of capital but a nonsynchronous, polemical, and critical totality of struggle and antagonism. Sekula turns the shipping container from a stand-in for a system of commodity circulation to an allegorical sign of the continuing...
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Stably Unusual: Artistic Labor and Aesthetic Autonomy
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (2): 395–428.
Published: 01 December 2023
.... Likewise, and inversely, while Brown’s original account of art’s internal overcoming of the commodity-form provides a generative way to rethink aesthetics in modernism’s wake, it rests on a periodizing claim for the total domination of the capitalist market that equivocates on whether artistic labor can...
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Is Marx (Capital) Secular?
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Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 109–124.
Published: 01 June 2014
... as
relentlessly secular, commodities, money, status, cultures, nations,
states, and even civilization may be sacralized.
Each of these claims, for which I have offered only the pith,
has a backstory involving a great deal of theoretical and historical
Brown...
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What Can Dialectics Change in the System?: Yuk Hui, Marx, Vygotsky, Mamardashvili
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (2): 237–262.
Published: 01 December 2024
... contents hidden behind the external signs. Mamardashvili, in his seminal text “Converted Forms: On the Need for Irrational Expressions” (first published in 1972), follows Marx’s critique of commodity and, quite like Vygotsky, focuses on the importance of the dialectical analysis of a system, as when he...
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How the Critique of Heaven Confines the Critique of the Earth
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Qui Parle (2020) 29 (2): 217–245.
Published: 01 December 2020
... establishes society both as an object of science and as a site of secular emancipation. It makes possible a series of analogies between the social and the religious as well as between the commodity and the fetish. This essay examines the effects of the anthropology of religion on the critique of capital...
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From Fetish to Totality: The Work of Art in the Age of Real Abstraction
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 245–266.
Published: 01 June 2023
..., mutually immiserating entwinement. The artwork thus calls attention to the fact that while the cautionary messages on mass commodities are designed to address a range of conscious concerns, they simultaneously obscure or hide the degree to which the object’s true destructive nature lies in its necessity...
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What Is Critique?: A Conversation with Eva Illouz
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 167–179.
Published: 01 June 2019
... of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment in the early 2000s, and her recent call for a postnormative critique. 1. Illouz, Emotions as Commodities , 22 . 2. Illouz, Why Love Hurts , 6 . 3. Johnson interviewed by Salusinszky, Criticism in Society , 159...
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Face Value (the Prosopa of Money)
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 99–119.
Published: 01 June 2018
... and derivation? The monetary characters in the eighteenth-century object narratives generalize in advance what Marx would later call the “language of commodities” ( Warensprache ). For Marx too made commodities speak, using the figure of prosopopoeia in the chapter of Das Kapital dedicated to fetishism...
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Out of the Spirit of the Medieval: Andrew Cole's The Birth of Theory
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Qui Parle (2015) 24 (1): 161–172.
Published: 01 June 2015
... with the famous “Lord-
ship and Bondage” section of the Phenomenology, and then by his-
toricizing Hegel’s theorizations of sacramentality and fetishism and
relating them to Marx’s analysis of the commodity. Chapters 3 and
4 both off er persuasive accounts of a thoroughly materialist...
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In the Face of Whiteness as Value: Fall-Outs of Metropolitan Humanness
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Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 143–182.
Published: 01 December 2003
... on foreign loans to fund its various moderniza-
tion development projects for attracting greater investments of
transnational capital. Tom's redemptive moral value can not be
understood apart from the local economy within which he circu-
lates as a sexual commodity, as well...
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Insert into Blankness: Poetry and Cultural Memory in Benjamin's Baudelaire Interpretation
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Qui Parle (2007) 16 (2): 97–130.
Published: 01 December 2007
... of a critical and ultimately deeply political
response to capital. Benjamin was preoccupied, in his initial explo-
ration of these questions, with the figure of allegory, which
becomes, in his texts on Baudelaire, the linguistic equivalent of the
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commodity...
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How to Make a Class: Hayek’s Neoliberalism and the Origins of Connectionism
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 159–184.
Published: 01 June 2021
... problem is about the limited knowledge of free individuals that establish the optimal price of commodities on the basis of incomplete information. (2) Knowledge is acquired through the act of classification or pattern recognition, that is, the universal faculty to make categories out of perceptions...
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All Too Human: A Conversation with Elizabeth Grosz
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Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 17–33.
Published: 01 December 2016
..., consumption, and
destruction of commodities (and now qualities and services) over-
whelm the human needs they aim to address. We are in this moment
and have been for some decades, if not centuries. What is needed
is both a politics, one that addresses political parties and economic...
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Ready-Made Artist: The Genealogy of a Concept
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Qui Parle (2014) 22 (2): 57–68.
Published: 01 December 2014
.... If the artist becomes the ambassador of the mute
world, only language will help him to complete the decontextual-
ization of the object, from the silent land of commodities into the
meaningfulness of the art world. Words are in charge of bringing
the spectator to the metaphysical wasteland located...
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Race and Science in Global Histories
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 405–417.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of new, global commodities within its pharmacological systems—was neither limited to Europe nor detached from other systems of medicine across Africa and Eurasia. Anna Winterbottom’s study of china root is one example of scholarship that traces global commodities through multiple regions...
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The Living Indebted: Student Militancy and the Financialization of Debt
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Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 57–77.
Published: 01 June 2011
... intervention precisely because it is unequal,
exploitative, violent.
Understanding the exploitative nature of today’s credit relation-
ships requires that we understand privatization not simply as the
reduction of the “value” of education to a commodity or a person-
al investment, but also...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 1–39.
Published: 01 June 2023
... in it. In Photography against the Grain (1984), Sekula wonders whether or not this is an achievable task: “Perhaps the fundamental question to be asked is this: can traditional photographic representation, whether symbolist or realist in its dominant formal rhetoric, transcend the pervasive logic of the commodity form...
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Digital Copyright and the Possibility of Pure Law
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Qui Parle (2003) 14 (1): 21–47.
Published: 01 June 2003
... fixed to particular
kinds of physical places.'
Two aspects of this description should be emphasized. First, print
culture is inherently tied to the physicality of print media. This
physicality structures all aspects of the human encounter with
mass-produced print commodities...
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Contesting the Manufactured Crisis of Public Higher Education at CUNY
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Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 219–232.
Published: 01 June 2011
... the conditions for social, technological, and economic
progress has now been replaced by the narrow view that education
is a commodity for sale to individuals who can afford it, and use-
ful only insofar as it can be exchanged for a job. This shift in phi-
losophy has meant...
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Literature and Totality: Kritik durch Darstellung and the Crisis of Literary Production in the Twenty-First-Century Gig Work Novel
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 137–161.
Published: 01 June 2023
... and Turner Chris . New York : Verso , 2017 . Banaji Jairus . “ From the Commodity to Capital: Hegel’s Dialectic in Marx’s Capital .” In Value: The Representation of Labour in Capitalism , edited by Elson Diane , 14 – 45 . New York : Verso , 2015 . Beller Jonathan...
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