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...Maristella Svampa Over the past decade, a significant number of Latin American countries have questioned the Washington consensus and financial valorization. In doing so, they have moved into the paradigm of the commodities consensus and the large-scale exportation of raw materials. These processes...

..., Stevphen, and Joanna Figiel, The Factory of Individuation: Cultural Labor and Class Composition in the Metropolis  535 Svampa, Maristella, Commodities Consensus: Neoextractivism and Enclosure of the Commons in Latin America  65 Szeman, Imre, Entrepreneurship as the New Common Sense...

... cheap credit, and access to cheap commodities—and a “deal” that has now been voided by the 2007–2008 “credit crunch.” We conclude by suggesting why Thompson’s concept of a moral economy might be politically useful for contemporary struggles against austerity and movements that are seeking to resolve...

... and practices of kinship is an idea of land that is the antithesis in theory and practice of the Western idea of property. “Over and against the property relation to land, which compre- hends land as a commodity, marketable, or alienable, by an individual or an entity acting as an individual...

... is re­ sponsible for providing this information. Information is transparent, devoid of ideological taint. The transparency and consensus ofJapan­ ese knowledge allow it to exceed, productively, the heterogeneous and racially divided cultural masses of the rest of the globe. Nakasone thus creates...

... sibilities currently being held out to us by mainstream currents in popular culture criticism.16 The consensus is that individuals make do, they cope, but are not in a position to transform commodity culture.17 As consumers, we make meanings out of the commodi­ ties produced by capitalism. Sometimes we...

... is still too sterile. In Walter Benjamin, he finds a critic sensitive to theoretical problems of form but also a firm materialist analysis that links textuality to commodity production. The text, like the commodity, disguises its material basis on one level, in its appearance as an artifact rich...

... from the fields that might allow them a spectrum of latitude to uncouple themselves from the price-setting marketplace. These fields are both physical, as with the separation from communal agriculture (i.e., enclosures), and mental, as laborers lose the experience of making whole commodities...

... it repeats: It re­ peats all the repetitions, by virtue of an internal power (an imitation is a copy, but art is simulation, it reverses copies into simulacra16 Everyday life is characterized by repetition as the return of the same, primarily in the standardized production of commodities...

... reform accelerated after the mid-1980s. The crux of the urban reform was to turn state-owned enterprises into autonomous profit-making units and to replace fixed, centrally planned prices of key commodities with floating market prices. Under the new pressure to make profits, many state- owned...

... of consensus among the most distinguished and experienced statesmen of the Republic, using their independent judgment to assess the most appropriate course for the good of the whole nation. From the earliest days, starting with Jay s Treaty with Great Brit­ ain ending the Revolutionary War, the ratification...

... Consensus 95 Stetz, Margaret Diane, E. M. Forster: Abinger Harvest, Anger, and the Letter C 296 Thornton, Kevin Pierce, Symbolism at Ole Miss and the Crisis of Southern Iden­ tity 254 No. 1, Winter, pp. 1-93; No. 2, Spring, pp. 95-208; No. 3, Summer, pp. 209-354; No. 4, Fall, pp. 355-572 Tompkins, Jane...

... the mid-nineteenth-century experience of urbanization.) Prostitution repre­ sents the human form of commodity capitalism; as Walter Benjamin pointed out, it is an objective emblem of the circulation of capital since the prostitute is commodity and seller in one.6 (She is an ambiguous kind of a commodity...

... Benello and Dimitrios Roussopoulos, The Case For Participatory Democracy (New York, 1971), p. 6. 9. SDS, The Port Huron Statement, p. 7; The Old Mole, 18 July 1969; New Left Notes, 2 Sept. 1966. 342 The South Atlantic Quarterly meeting; running the meeting by consensus or sense of the meeting decision...

... of mounting a challenge to the thinking du jour, others eager to break out of received protocols of knowledge whose terms they seek to transcend or contravene, and still others whose expanse of understanding keeps them unmoved by the prevailing consensus or the latest idea. These interventions explore...

... aristocracies. One of the primary slogans was, “We are not commodities in the hands of politicians and bankers.” The demonstration was launched on the basis of an emerging platform—Real Democracy Now! (known by the Spanish acronym DRY)1—that was formulated in the previous weeks, primarily through...

... generat- ing wealth geopolitically, the new order was to be marked by the expansion of an ‘‘indirect and seemingly consensual American hegemony’’ The South Atlantic Quarterly 104:2, Spring 2005...

... in the processes of commodity exchange and monetary transactions. They are immensely powerful because they are incorporated into social practices and, at the same time, represent symbolic manifestations...

... imposed on nonwhite (African American and Arab) and female workers in particular.3 The crisis of Fordism, moreover, extended well beyond the shop floor into the intimate space of the household.4 For what we call Fordism was never only about the consensus between (white) industrial labor unions and capital...

... dispensed by a host of professional ex­ perts and helpful advisers on the whys and wherefores, the ins and outs, of acquiring and displaying good taste.6 For some of these new culture consumers, culture itself functioned as a commodity like any other, an ornament to be displayed or a sign to be mobilized...