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... 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...

.... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

..., 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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 100 JENNIFER BAJOREK commodity...

... 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...

..., 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...

.... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...