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Living Books

Author : Janneke Adema
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262366452
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Living Books written by Janneke Adema and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reimagining the scholarly book as living and collaborative--not as commodified and essentialized, but in all its dynamic materiality. In this book, Janneke Adema proposes that we reimagine the scholarly book as a living and collaborative project--not as linear, bound, and fixed, but as fluid, remixed, and liquid, a space for experimentation. She presents a series of cutting-edge experiments in arts and humanities book publishing, showcasing the radical new forms that book-based scholarly work might take in the digital age. Adema's proposed alternative futures for the scholarly book go beyond such print-based assumptions as fixity, stability, the single author, originality, and copyright, reaching instead for a dynamic and emergent materiality. Adema suggests ways to unbind the book, describing experiments in scholarly book publishing with new forms of anonymous collaborative authorship, radical open access publishing, and processual, living, and remixed publications, among other practices. She doesn't cast digital as the solution and print as the problem; the problem in scholarly publishing, she argues, is not print itself, but the way print has been commodified and essentialized. Adema explores alternative, more ethical models of authorship; constructs an alternative genealogy of openness; and examines opportunities for intervention in current cultures of knowledge production. Finally, asking why it is that we cut and bind our research together at all, she examines two book publishing projects that experiment with remix and reuse and try to rethink and reperform the book-apparatus by taking responsibility for the cuts they make.

Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler

Author : Thomas Frank
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393342808
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler written by Thomas Frank and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the pages of The Baffler, the most vital and perceptive new magazine of the nineties, sharp, satirical broadsides against the Culture Trust. In the "old" Gilded Age, the barons of business accumulated vast wealth and influence from their railroads, steel mills, and banks. But today it is culture that stands at the heart of the American enterprise, mass entertainment the economic dynamo that brings the public into the consuming fold and consolidates the power of business over the American mind. For a decade The Baffler has been the invigorating voice of dissent against these developments, in the grand tradition of the muckrakers and The American Mercury. This collection gathers the best of its writing to explore such peculiar developments as the birth of the rebel hero as consumer in the pages of Wired and Details; the ever-accelerating race to market youth culture; the rise of new business gurus like Tom Peters and the fad for Hobbesian corporate "reengineering"; and the encroachment of advertising and commercial enterprise into every last nook and cranny of American life. With its liberating attitude and cant-free intelligence, this book is a powerful polemic against the designs of the culture business on us all.

Commodifying Bodies

Author : Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761940340
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Commodifying Bodies written by Nancy Scheper-Hughes and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2002-10-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With rapid developments in reproductive medicine, transplant ethics and bioethics, a new `ethic of parts' has emerged in which the body is increasingly seen as a commodity which can be bartered, sold or stolen. This book combines perspectives from anthropology and sociology to offer compelling new readings of the body.

The Commodification of Farm Animals

Author : Sophie Riley
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030858707
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Commodification of Farm Animals written by Sophie Riley and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the developments in veterinary science, philosophy, economics and law converged during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to entrench farm animals along a commodification pathway. It covers two neglected areas of study; the importance of international veterinary conferences to domestic regimes and the influence of early global treaties that dealt with animal health on domestic quarantine measures. The author concludes by arguing that society needs to reconsider its understanding and the place of the welfare paradigm in animal production systems. As it presently stands, this paradigm can be used to justify almost any self-serving reason to abrogate ethical principles. The topic of this book will appeal to a wide readership; not only scholars, students and educators but also people involved in animal production, interested parties and experts in the animal welfare and animal rights sector, as well as policy-makers and regulators, who will find this work informative and thought-provoking.

The Commodification of Academic Research

Author : Hans Radder
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822977583
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book The Commodification of Academic Research written by Hans Radder and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2010-09-05 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selling science has become a common practice in contemporary universities. This commodification of academia pervades many aspects of higher education, including research, teaching, and administration. As such, it raises significant philosophical, political, and moral challenges. This volume offers the first book-length analysis of this disturbing trend from a philosophical perspective and presents views by scholars of philosophy of science, social and political philosophy, and research ethics. The epistemic and moral responsibilities of universities, whether for-profit or nonprofit, are examined from several philosophical standpoints. The contributors discuss the pertinent epistemological and methodological questions, the sociopolitical issues of the organization of science, the tensions between commodified practices and the ideal of "science for the public good," and the role of governmental regulation and personal ethical behavior. In order to counter coercive and corruptive influences of academic commodification, the contributors consider alternatives to commodified research and offer practical recommendations for establishing appropriate research standards, methodologies and institutional arrangements, and a corresponding normative ethos.

Rethinking Commodification

Author : Martha Ertman
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814722288
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Commodification written by Martha Ertman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world that is often ruled by buyers and sellers, those things that are often considered priceless become objects to be marketed and from which to earn a profit.

The Commodification of Childhood

Author : Daniel Thomas Cook
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822332688
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book The Commodification of Childhood written by Daniel Thomas Cook and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThrough a study of industry publications over much of the century, shows how the U.S. children’s clothing industry produced increasingly refined categories of childhood./div

Commodified Communion

Author : Antonio Eduardo Alonso
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823294137
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Commodified Communion written by Antonio Eduardo Alonso and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER, 2021 HTI BOOK PRIZE Resist! This exhortation animates a remarkable range of theological reflection on consumer culture in the United States. And for many theologians, the source and summit of Christian cultural resistance is the Eucharist. In Commodified Communion, Antonio Eduardo Alonso calls into question this dominant mode of theological reflection on contemporary consumerism. Reducing the work of theology to resistance and centering Christian hope in a Eucharist that might better support it, he argues, undermines our ability to talk about the activity of God within a consumer culture. By reframing the question in terms of God’s activity in and in spite of consumer culture, this book offers a lived theological account of consumer culture that recognizes not only its deceptions but also traces of truth in its broken promises and fallen hopes.

The Value of Labor

Author : Martha Lampland
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022631474X
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The Value of Labor written by Martha Lampland and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of today’s fierce political anger over income inequality is a feature of capitalism that Karl Marx famously obsessed over: the commodification of labor. Most of us think wage-labor economics is at odds with socialist thinking, but as Martha Lampland explains in this fascinating look at twentieth-century Hungary, there have been moments when such economics actually flourished under socialist regimes. Exploring the region’s transition from a capitalist to a socialist system—and the economic science and practices that endured it—she sheds new light on the two most polarized ideologies of modern history. Lampland trains her eye on the scientific claims of modern economic modeling, using Hungary’s unique vantage point to show how theories, policies, and techniques for commodifying agrarian labor that were born in the capitalist era were adopted by the socialist regime as a scientifically designed wage system on cooperative farms. Paying attention to the specific historical circumstances of Hungary, she explores the ways economists and the abstract notions they traffic in can both shape and be shaped by local conditions, and she compellingly shows how labor can be commodified in the absence of a labor market. The result is a unique account of economic thought that unveils hidden but necessary continuities running through the turbulent twentieth century.

From Commodification to the Common Good

Author : Hans Radder
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822987090
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book From Commodification to the Common Good written by Hans Radder and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The commodification of science—often identified with commercialization, or the selling of expertise and research results and the “capitalization of knowledge” in academia and beyond—has been investigated as a threat to the autonomy of science and academic culture and criticized for undermining the social responsibility of modern science. In From Commodification to the Common Good, Hans Radder revisits the commodification of the sciences from a philosophical perspective to focus instead on a potential alternative, the notion of public-interest science. Scientific knowledge, he argues, constitutes a common good only if it serves those affected by the issues at stake, irrespective of commercial gain. Scrutinizing the theory and practices of scientific and technological patenting, Radder challenges the legitimacy of commercial monopolies and the private appropriation and exploitation of research results. His book invites us to reevaluate established laws and to question doctrines and practices that may impede or even prohibit scientific research and social progress so that we might achieve real and significant transformations in service of the common good.

Commodifying Cannabis

Author : Bradley J. Borougerdi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498586384
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Commodifying Cannabis written by Bradley J. Borougerdi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cannabis is a genetically diverse plant that has been commodified for a variety of different purposes by many cultures throughout world history. For thousands of years, people have used its fiber, seed, and flowers to make rope and cloth, rig ships, feed people and livestock, concoct medicines, and alter states of consciousness. Until the nineteenth century, though, most Europeans and Americans were unaware of drug varieties of cannabis. The British encountered them in India and created western-style medicines that sold throughout the Atlantic world by the 1840s, but negative associations with Oriental intoxication and degeneracy sullied the plant’s reputation as a viable commodity. Now, after decades of transatlantic criminalization policies against cannabis in the twentieth century, it is making a comeback. In Commodifying Cannabis, Bradley J. Borougerdi traces the tangled histories of its use for fiber, medicine, and altered states of consciousness across the Atlantic world, focusing on the dynamic interplay between these three different cultural applications to explain why the plant has transformed so many times throughout history. The historical journey spans a vast geographical landscape and includes over three centuries of source material to illuminate the cultural foundations behind the myriad transformations cannabis has endured as a commodity in the Atlantic world.

A Commodified World

Author : Colin C. Williams
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781842773550
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book A Commodified World written by Colin C. Williams and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2005-03-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a critique of the assumption of increasing commodification in the modern economy.

Contested Commodities

Author : Margaret Jane Radin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674166974
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Contested Commodities written by Margaret Jane Radin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996-05-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far should society go in permitting people to buy and sell goods and services? Radin addresses this controversial issue in an exploration of contested commodification. As a philosophical pragmatist, the author argues for an incomplete commodification, in which some contested things can be bought and sold, but only under regulated circumstances.

The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx

Author : Matt Vidal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190695560
Total Pages : 865 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx written by Matt Vidal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Marx is one of the most influential writers in history. Despite repeated obituaries proclaiming the death of Marxism, in the 21st century Marx's ideas and theories continue to guide vibrant research traditions in sociology, economics, political science, philosophy, history, anthropology, management, economic geography, ecology, literary criticism, and media studies. Due to the exceptionally wide influence and reach of Marxist theory, including over 150 years of historical debates and traditions within Marxism, finding a point of entry can be daunting. The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx provides an entry point for those new to Marxism. At the same time, its chapters, written by leading Marxist scholars, advance Marxist theory and research. Its coverage is more comprehensive than previous volumes on Marx in terms of both foundational concepts and state-of-the-art empirical research on contemporary social problems. It is also provides equal space to sociologists, economists, and political scientists, with substantial contributions from philosophers, historians, and geographers. The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx consists of six sections. The first section, Foundations, includes chapters that cover the foundational concepts and theories that constitute the core of Marx's theories of history, society, and political economy. This section demonstrates that the core elements of Marx's political economy of capitalism continue to be defended, elaborated, and applied to empirical social science and covers historical materialism, class, capital, labor, value, crisis, ideology, and alienation. Additional sections include Labor, Class, and Social Divisions; Capitalist States and Spaces; Accumulation, Crisis, and Class Struggle in the Core Countries; Accumulation, Crisis, and Class Struggle in the Peripheral and Semi-Peripheral Countries; and Alternatives to Capitalism.

The Commodification of Language

Author : John E. Petrovic
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000372790
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Commodification of Language written by John E. Petrovic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to add to our understanding of how language is constructed in late capitalist societies. Exploring the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of the so-called "commodification of language" and its relationship to the notion of linguistic capital, the authors examine recent research that offers implications for language policy and planning. Bringing together an international group of scholars, this collection includes chapters that address whether or not language can rightly be referred to as a commodity and, if so, under what circumstances. The different theoretical foundations of understanding language as a resource with exchange value – whether as commodity or capital – have practical implications for policy writ large. The implications of the "commodification of language" in more empirical terms are explored, both in terms of how it affects language as well as language policy at more micro levels. This includes more specific policy arenas such as language in education policy or family language policies as well as the implications for individual identity construction and linguistic communities. With a conclusion written by leading scholar David Block, this is key reading for researchers and advanced students of critical sociolinguistics, language and economy, language and politics, language policy and linguistic anthropology within linguistics, applied linguistics, and language teacher education.

Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women

Author : Timothy Burke
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822317623
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women written by Timothy Burke and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do people come to need products they never even knew they wanted? How, for example, did indigenous Zimbabweans of the 1940s begin to believe that they required Lifebuoy soap? Offering a glimpse into the intimate workings of modern colonialism and global capitalism, Timothy Burke takes up these questions in Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women, a study of post-World War II commodity culture in Zimbabwe. With particular attention to cosmetic products and the contrast between colonial and pre-colonial ideas of cleanliness, Burke examines the role played by commodity culture, changing patterns of consumption, and the spread of advertising in the making of modern Zimbabwe. His work combines history, anthropology, and political economy to show how the development of commodification in the region relates to the social history of hygiene. Within this framework, and drawing on a wide variety of historical sources, Burke explores dense interactions between commodity culture and embodied aspects of race, gender, sexuality, domesticity, health, and aesthetics in a colonial society. Rather than viewing the production of needs simply as an imposition from above, Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women shows what heterogeneous and complex processes, involving the aims and histories of both colonizers and colonized, produced these changes in Zimbabwean society. Integrating political economy, cultural studies, and a wide range of the social sciences, Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women will find readers among scholars of colonialism, African history, and ethnography as well those for whom the problem of commodification is a significant theoretical issue.

Commodifying Everything

Author : Susan Strasser
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415935913
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Commodifying Everything written by Susan Strasser and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.