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Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2010 Following Philipp Sarasin, the nation will be analysed as a privileged ‘signifier’ which promises to fix the ever floating chain of ‘signifieds’ and make the world fully understandable. However, as a privileged (or transcendental) signifier cannot be but
Oliver Kühschelm
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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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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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War and Everyday life: Iran and America A Media Case Study [PDF]
Taḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān, 2011 These days war has became one of the most important identical factors of the Middle East in western media. As war is representing the Middle East ugly and horrible to the public opinion, is being repeated normally in the lives of the Middle Eastern ...
Amin Parvin, Seyed Abdolamir Nabavi
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
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Confronting Language Fetishism in Practice [PDF]
, 2021 The notion of fetishism, in the most general interpretation of the term, is one in which an object is afforded extra-natural properties, or is animated and brought to life as an agentive “thing”. In this sense, the notion of language as a fetish (Simpson
O'Regan, JP, Simpson, W
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Golden weapons and golden fetters: From the gold standard to the new geopolitics
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the historical relationship between monetary regimes, security concerns, and geopolitical tensions, particularly focusing on the role of gold. Throughout history, monetary systems have been deeply intertwined with international state systems and security provisions.
Harold James
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The Incarnational Aesthetic of David Brown☆
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract The notion of incarnation has historically been a prominent concept for the acceptance of images and the interpretation of art within Christianity. A contemporary proponent of this line of reasoning about the theological potential of art is David Brown, who builds his theology of culture on the doctrine of incarnation. This article presents an
Filip Taufer
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Critical considerations on the fetishism of commodities. [PDF]
, 2007 A companion to 1. that both pursues its concern with narrative fascination and unsettles its theoretical assumptions, showing the formal incompatibility of the Freudian and Marxian accounts of fetishism.
Mulhern, F.
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Intencionalidad, invención y reducción al absurdo en la invención de América
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2012 This essay discusses the interrelationship of intentionality, invention and reduction to the absurd in Edmundo O'Gorman's La invención de América. The question of the reduction to the absurd has a long history that goes from Parmenides to Marx.
José Rabasa
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