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...Marilyn Ivy Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Marilyn Ivy Critical Texts, Mass Artifacts: The Consumption of Knowledge in Postmodern Japan J apan has come to exist within the American political unconscious as an almost comfort­ ing figure of danger and promise the danger...

... to a structural increase in consumption. First, the notion of “neoliberalism from below” is developed to understand the concrete forms of neoliberalism’s persistence in a neodevelopmentalist context. Then apparatuses of consumption and debt are conceptualized as drivers of new forms of value creation in the urban...

... are not merely technological infrastructure; they transform social and spatial relations by altering land use, property relations, and patterns of work and consumption. The social history of pipelines is a paradoxical tale of the dispossession of local communities and their often coercive integration into wider...

..., the center of the Chinese Communist Party, concerned about social stability and rebalancing China’s economy through raising workers’ share of income and consumption, has increasingly sided with the struggling workers to contain the alliance between local states and private capital. The outcome of this new...

...Rachel Havrelock The very phrase “modern Middle East” conjures images of military conflict, terrorism, sectarianism, and oil, yet most observers tend to separate the history of Western oil consumption from Middle Eastern wars or dismiss the whole business as wars for oil. This essay argues...

... of reinventing local economic circuits of production and consumption that involves digital platforms for the common good. [email protected] Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 circulation of workers’ struggles worker-owned platforms platform cooperativism platform labor...

... polarization between public and private urban space. Reflected in the gated communities, green zones, fortified aid compounds, shopping malls, and tourist enclaves of the global city, bunkers offer sites of elite refuge, private consumption, and a secure base from which power, in an uncertain and divided world...

... the hydraulic ram rather rigor­ ously. Consumption, the mere ward of social science, has begun to use the siphon, albeit somewhat silently. Industrial equilibration, synchronization, and' stabilization should evolve as the drawing power of Consumption becomes strong enough to appropriate the driving power...

... are: the greatly in­ creased consumption of cigarettes and snuff; the declining consumption of smoking and chewing tobacco and cigars; and the introduction of large-scale machine methods into the man­ ufacture of cigars with the resulting rise to favor of the cheap cigar. From 1914 to 1930 there were increases...

..., the earthquake kit exemplifies one of the most important features of the commodity form: it promotes the notion of democratized consumption. Its ability to do so is a dramatic demonstration of what Marx meant by commodity fetishism. As he defined it, the commodity form is the negation of the labor and social...

... of subjectivity in relation to questions of energy, infrastructure, and capitalism today. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Solar excess distribution Marx Deleuze and Guattari References Bataille Georges . (1949) 1991 . The Accursed Share, Vol. 1: Consumption , translated...

... of Disney World, there is no better example than the mall of the wholesale use of architecture and decor as a means for promoting consumption in an environ­ ment where there is probably more surveillance per square inch (both technological and human) than in any of today s underfunded public prisons. Many...

...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...

... to resort to it indirectly when in a tight place. We not only do not vote as we drink, but on this question we do not even vote as we seem to think. At the cross-roads between production and consumption there are many necessary groups who stand to gain whenever prices fluctuate. Periodically these groups...

... of theparticular ways in which culture operates within capitalist logistics. The difference lies in the contrast between status and class forms of social organization. Generally, a status-defined society is one in which power is seen as emerg- ing from the right to manage consumption. Authority over...

... is the expansion of consumption, espe- cially popular consumption, inextricably linked to state subsidies and social Gago and Sztulwark • Introduction  609 programs, apparatuses of indebtedness, and new forms of violence. The phe- nomenon of inclusion by access...

... part by taxation upon special war profits and surplus incomes. It would be unwise to increase most of our customs duties greatly, because they fall upon people largely in proportion to their consumption of necessities and not in proportion to their ability to bear burdens of taxation. To meet...

... consumption by the appended signs but instead consumes these signi- fiers in a disposable and cliché-like fashion, as if adopting a temporary 7 tattoo. Leaving aside, for the moment, the questions of why some newer fans may prefer a more ‘‘virtual’’ relationship to football, why...

... Perkins, for a compass-like 'jnstrument for Removing Pain, etc., by Metallic Points. Among the seventy-odd medical remedies patented in the following forty years were those professing to cure scrofula, cancer, consumption, cholera, scurvy, toothache, and corns. On the nostrum market of the early...

..., inconsolably lost because the world around him insisted and proved on a daily basis, not least with the flourishes of mass consumption that life continues and is worth living, whereas his lifeline, his life s work, had been uprooted and destroyed. How could one ever reconcile the sunny abundance...