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What does Marx mean by the "fetishism of commodities" ? [PDF]
, 2010 The present paper aims to analyse Marx’s concept of “fetishism of commodities” by explaining the mechanism of a social genesis of determined illusions, arising in the sphere of production and circulation of commodities.
Dobra, Alexandra
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Positive Freedom and the Social Meaning of Money
Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 491-506, May 2026.ABSTRACT Semiotic objections to markets hold that buying and selling certain things – for example, sex, body parts, votes, surrogacy services – expresses that those things are fungible with money, which has only profane value. This article offers a more fundamental challenge to semiotic critiques of markets.
Andrew Allison +2 more
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Commodity Fetishism as Semblance [PDF]
Sociological Theory, 2020 With the aid of Hannah Arendt’s distinction between authentic and inauthentic semblances, this article reconstructs Karl Marx’s notion of commodity fetishism as a phenomenological concept. It reveals two distinct interpretive moments in the fetish: the interpretation of goods as anonymous in exchange and the interpretation of commodity-exchange as ...
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Toxic Entanglements: Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 49, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the outsourcing of asylum processing and resettlement from Global North to South. Many of these containment practices retrace the fault lines of more typically thought‐of colonial extractive regimes. This article draws on long‐term ethnographic research conducted in the Republic of Nauru, the world'
Julia Morris
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Sociologia Ruralis, Volume 66, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT Financial incentives go a long way in securing land manager participation in environmental programmes. They are nevertheless limited in their capacity to influence the quality of engagement with nature recovery actions. Drawing on responses from members of organisations active in nature conservation and restoration across four UK study sites ...
Charles Masquelier +4 more
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Fetichismo, Golpe Retórico e a Crítica da Modernidade em Marx
Revista Multiface Online, 2017 In Das Kapital Marx presents a relation established in the core of the modern bourgueois society: the commodity fetishism. For long time this term remained on disregard and “the development of Marx’s ideas about commodity fetishism did not attract ...
Alexandre Abreu Medrado +2 more
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Interpretation, 1980 And 1880 [PDF]
, 2013 This article reviews recent methodological interventions in the field of literary study, many of which take nineteenth-century critics, readers, or writers as models for their less interpretive reading practices.
Buurma, Rachel Sagner, Heffernan, L.
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Journal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 36, Issue 2, March/April 2026.ABSTRACT This paper proposes a critical framework that merges Critical Discursive Psychology (CDP) with Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle to explicate the discourses surrounding digital technologies. Although CDP offers an analytic lens for examining how language constructs subjectivities, identities and ideological frameworks, it has yet to fully ...
Anastasia Rousaki
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La centralidad como mercancía: explotación del capital simbólico colectivo [PDF]
Ciudades, 2013 Spatial centrality is generally associated to objective parameters: prime location, spatial quality, accumulation of activity and services, connectivity and functions as flowattraction node… There is also a more symbolic component related to the type of ...
Beatriz González Kirchner
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Consumption from the Avant-Garde to the Silver Screen
Exchanges, 2020 In Oswald de Andrade’s ‘Manifesto Antropófago’ of 1928, he explicitly calls for Brazilian and Latin American artists to resist the vestiges of colonial cultural politics by appropriating the cannibal trope and unabashedly plundering and consuming the ...
David Shames
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