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Em busca da ordem no caos: o que é bom para comer no capitalismo do século XXI?/Searching for the order of chaos: the capital’s logic on determining what is good to eat

Geografares, 2018
The article develops a Marxist analysis of one aspect of the current food crisis: the problem around determining what is good to eat. The line that counters posed the problem of hunger to the problem of obesity has vanished, concentrating both on the ...
Andrea Santos Baca, Gloria Idalia Baca Lobera   +1 more
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Obscuring the Veil

Canadian Food Studies, 2020
Working with Karl Marx’s concept of commodity fetishism, the purpose of this paper is to argue that food advertisements and packaging work to further obfuscate the social, economic, and environmental relations behind the animal products and by-products ...
Ellyse Winter
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On Althusser's Philosophy of the Encounter

World Review of Political Economy, 2013
The article reviews Althusser's Philosophy of the Encounter , examining in turn the problem of the Epistemological Break and the idea of matérialisme aléatoire .
Paul Cockshott
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Merging the Human and the Nonhuman: The Object Narrator in The Adventures of a Black Coat

Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 2021
Rooted in the tradition of eighteenth-century circulation novels recounted by an object narrator, The Adventures of a Black Coat (1760) epitomizes the features of this experimental novelistic subgenre by foregrounding a coat which, acting as a ...
Dragos Ivana
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Fetishism or Ideology? A Contribution to the Political Economy of Television

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2017
The dominant approach to the political economy of television argues that television produces "audience commodity" which is sold to advertisers. It situates the economic effects of television in the sphere of subjects and subjectivity.
Noam Yuran
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Two Forms of Fetishism: From the Commodity to Revolution in "Us"

Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований, 2019
This essay contends that Jordan Peele’s Us (2019) connects the psychic operation of fetishistic disavowal to the existence of class division. By exploring the role that fetishistic disavowal plays in commodity fetishism, the film makes clear how the ...
Todd McGowan
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From Inferiority to Alienation in Adalet Ağaoğlu’s Fikrimin İnce Gülü

İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi, 2021
Adalet Ağaoğlu’s Fikrimin İnce Gülü is one of the most celebrated novels of contemporary Turkish literature. Published in 1976 and dealing with a variety of themes, the novel tells the story of Bayram, a Turkish immigrant worker’s journey from the ...
Cenk Tan
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Veiled Exploitation: The Maintenance of Power through False Consciousness in The Netflix Series Arcane

Journal of Language and Literature
The focus of this research is to identify and reveal how false consciousness is created and utilized to retain the authority of the industrialist Silco in the Netflix series Arcane.
Ananda Lukmanul Hakim, Inayatul Chusna
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Hard cash, easy credit, fictitious capital: Critical reflections on money as a fetishised social relation

Finance and Society, 2015
This article explores some aspects of money as a social relation. Starting from Polanyi, it explores the nature of money as a non-commodity, real commodity, quasi-commodity, and fictitious commodity.
Bob Jessop
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COMMODITY FETISHISMS IN COSMETIC ADVERTISEMENTS IN INDONESIA [PDF]

, 2014
The objectives of this research entitled “Commodity Fetishism in Cosmetic Advertisement in Indonesia” were to find out how the phenomena of commodity fetishism appear in cosmetic advertisement in Indonesia and how consumers’ responses toward the ...
Lestari, Titin
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