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...Susan Willis Susan Willis Gender as Commodity Are there girls and boys? No, just boys and boys. In late-twentieth-century capitalism, gen­ dering has invariably to do with commodity consumption. We buy into a gender in the same way we buy into a style. It makes no dif­ ference whether we...

...Liz Moor Duke University Press 2006 Liz Moor ‘‘The Buzz of Dressing Commodity Culture, Fraternity, and Football Fandom Personal histories of football fandom often provide conflicting accounts of the process...

...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...

...Leigh Claire La Berge From Foucault's claim that we are now all entrepreneurs of ourselves to Antonio Negri's (and others') claim that we are now in a moment of the real subsumption of labor to capital, the status of labor has changed. What aesthetic approaches to the status of labor as commodity...

... to the commodity form turns political commitment into an avenue for achieving artistic autonomy. In the second part, the authors reopen the debate about politically committed art, arguing for a distinction between propaganda, or poorly mediated desire—captured in writing about creepiness—and political commitment...

... as the content of value carried by the commodity and absolute use value of labor power to capitalist production, while also describing the content of these value-producing activities as greater than what can be described in terms of physical commodities and their value as represented through exchange. © 2012...

...Melanie Gilligan; Marina Vishmidt This essay is part of a larger body of ongoing research and publication investigating how current shifts in the material relations of money, commodities, and social abstractions shape processes of contemporary subject formation. By moving dialectically through...

...C. D. Blanton A notion of ideology relies necessarily on deeper assumptions about a consciousness subject to misapprehension and error. But in their inversions of Hegel, the mature Marx’s account of the commodity and general formula of capital dethrone consciousness altogether, assigning faculties...

...Michael Dillon This essay argues that security is not a commodity or value but a generative principle of political formation. Inasmuch as security politics are also politics of the limit, they derive their political rationalities and governing technologies from the vantage point of the end...

... 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...

...Verónica Gago This article proposes expanding the concept of extractivism beyond the critique of the reprimarization of Latin American economies and their dependency on commodities. Thus it focuses on the modes of financial penetration of Argentina’s popular sectors during the past decade linked...

..., commodity, labor, and capital. Current financial developments, including different business models centered on the “free culture” associated with the Internet (free content, free labor, etc.) are caught up in this process, reworking wider social experiences of time and the future and challenging the idea...

... of the roman noir in the works of Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy, I will argue that we can witness a generic shift in the status of the “state of exception.” This shift concerns the relation between commodity culture, the law, woman, and the border figure of the detective, who is at once within and beyond...

... through a relentless focus on individual accommodation and biocertification. The accommodations loop shows that time, often thought of as a desirable commodity, can also be used to harm disabled people in the name of inclusion. In closing, this article argues that we should work toward equity through...

...Susan Willis Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Susan Willis Earthquake Kits: The Politics of the Trivial ^^urs is a commodified culture. This means that we do not have access to social rela­ tionships and historical processes except by way of the commodity form. But this does...

... commodities at all times and at all places. 3 However, Smith quotes David Hume as having said in 1752 Everything in the world is purchased by labour, a statement which would give him priority over Smith? According to Lee Cameron McDonald, Locke is an early defender of the labor theory of value. 5 In 1690...

.... It is compressed by the binding of nature in the fixed points of commodities. These points are fixed relative to the reproduction-time of nature; they are fixed because they cannot reenter the natural reproduc­ tion process at the same rate as other natural substances. Their time is out of joint...

... commodity prices. The panic and the succeeding depression checked this rise of prices. But, in a surprisingly short time, the upward movement seems again to be in full swing, and prospects are that general prices will soon equal and exceed those recorded early in 1907. The press has recently published some...

... ways by which the commodity, in its very modernity and mundaneness, conjured up the archaic and the exotic, the primitive and the mythic. It was as if, in our secular and scientific age, fancy found its home no longer in the stories and gods of times gone by but in commodities, as fetishes and things...

... and Social Media.” PewResearch Internet Project , May 26 . www.pewinternet.org/2010/05/26/reputation-management-and-social-media/ . Manzerolle Vincent . 2010 . “Mobilizing the Audience Commodity: Digital Labor in a Wireless World.” Ephemera 10 , nos. 3–4 : 455 – 69 . Marx Karl...