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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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Resistance Values in Palestinian Hip-hop Music [PDF]
, 2012 This research aims to describe popular culture of Palestine Hip-Hop and the values of songs. This research has purposes 1) to describe popular culture in Palestine Hip-Hop, and 2) to find resistance value in hip-hop songs.
Alindah, L. (Lutfiyah)
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
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Education as a Commodity Fetish / A Educação Como Fetiche da Mercadoria
Diversitas Journal, 2016 This article analyzes the commercialization process of education under the neoliberal sign and shows the failure of seeking citizenship as the sole teleology able to humanize mankind.
José Bezerra da Silva +1 more
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Climate Science as Counterculture
Liinc em Revista, 2022 This article investigates climate science as a cultural object. By pursuing the “logic of its aporias”, it is shown that climate science emerged at the confluence of the objective development of the means of production (constituting a “planetary general ...
Daniel Cunha
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Cancer and Capitalism: Towards a Critical Sociological Agenda
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article considers the relationship between cancer and capitalism from the perspective of political economy. It argues that this perspective is crucial for producing a critical agenda in the sociological study of cancer, which has otherwise and traditionally neglected the question of capital as social totality.
Faisal Al‐Asaad
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(Ap)Praising Vetements: the Celebrity Digital Surface and the Making of a Leading Fashion Brand
ZoneModa Journal, 2017 In this paper, I situate the meteoric rise of the Parisian fashion collective Vetements within the paratextual circulation of celebrity images that have accompanied the press, media, and publicity coverage for this brand.
David Sanchez-Aguilera
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Commodified Justice and American Penal Form
Journal of Law and Political Economy, 2021 This article seeks to analyze American penal law, ideology, and culture through the lens of Marxist theories of commodification and commodity fetishism.
Daniel Epstein
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Fossil Hegemony and Capitalist Realism in Tropic of Orange
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange (1997) through the lens of Mark Fisher's influential concept ‘capitalist realism’. Scholars of petrofiction have pointed to a political ambivalence in the representation of fossil fuels, where a better understanding of fossil capital can overwhelm as much as galvanize.
Claire Ravenscroft
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Philosophical and religious aspects of the commodity fetishism (based on the digital economy)
CхідThis article is devoted to a philosophical and religious analysis of the phenomenon of commodity fetishism in the digital economy. It draws on Georg Simmel's philosophy of money, Karl Marx's concept of commodity fetishism, Max Weber's idea of the ...
Роман Воробей
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