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“Some Unholy Alloy”: Neoliberalism, Digital Modernity, and the Mechanics of Globalized Capital in Cormac McCarthy’s The Counselor

European Journal of American Studies, 2017
This article proposes a reading of The Counselor (2013) as an extrapolation of the frontier ethic animating much of Cormac McCarthy’s earlier writing.
David Deacon
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Poststructuralism against poststructuralism: Actor-network theory, organizations and economic markets [PDF]

, 2011
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2012 The Author.In recent years, actor-network theory (ANT) has become an increasingly influential theoretical framework through which to ...
Roberts, JM
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Complaint culture: the non‐market economy and moral disappointment in a late‐socialist kibbutz La culture des réclamations : économie non marchande et déception morale dans un kibboutz aux derniers temps du socialisme

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 917-936, September 2025.
In recent years, the kibbutz – a once‐idealized socialist commune in Israel – has become a common object of critique in Israeli popular culture. Many critiques focus on what can be described as the old kibbutz's ‘moral harshness’, highlighting the prevalence of informal surveillance, peer pressure, and public moralizing.
Omri Senderowicz
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Soviet Pins: Souvenirs as Spoils in the Triumphal Procession [PDF]

, 2011
In Moscow today, old Soviet pins, which had once been awarded to school kids as a rite of passage, are sold as souvenirs to tourists. These pins are an example of the many ruins of the Soviet Union that have experienced a metamorphosis: they connote an ...
Levant, Alex
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Diamonds and Emotions in the Minerals Gallery: Civilizing Emodities in the Age of Liberal Empire

Museum & Society
This article examines discourse about diamonds and affect in London’s major geological and mineralogical galleries in the nineteenth century. While these institutions offered services to industries built around mineral extraction, their exhibition ...
Danielle Kinsey
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New media art, participation, social engagement and public funding [PDF]

, 2013
This article investigates the current condition of new media art in Britain, examining how cuts to arts funding have affected the art form's infrastructure and capacity for survival and growth. It considers media art in relation to other contemporary art
Chatzichristodoulou, Maria
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The The Time of Capital: Suspension and Acceleration in the Post-Pandemic World

Recerca: Revista de Pensament i Anàlisi
The COVID-19 pandemic constituted a historically unprecedented phenomenon: never before had more than half the global population been confined while digitally interconnected.
Agata Pawlowska
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The Financial Logic of Internet Platforms: The Turnover Time of Money at the Limit of Zero

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2019
In the first two sections of Capital, Volume 2, Marx examines the factors that pressure capital to reduce its circulation and turnover times at the limit of zero.
Marcos Dantas
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The ruin revisited [PDF]

, 2010
A chapter which explores the role of ruins within contemporary socety and the reception associated with them. In particular, it highlights the important ways in which social time is configured around the recovery of ruins from the past, focusing on the ...
Hetherington, Kevin
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VISUALITY AND FEMINISM: THE DISCOURSE OF ADVERTISEMENT, SEXUAL DIFFERENCE AND GENDER REALITY

Fluminensia: Journal for Philological Research, 2004
This essay stresses the effects of a reflexive gaze in visual arts as well as in their representation of both sex and gender. The reflexive gaze involves a spectator in an image thus depriving him of its subject while at the same time returning it as an ...
Aleksandar Mijatović
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