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Contested Refugeeness in the Lavrio Kurdish Camp After the 2015 Reception Crisis in Greece
ABSTRACT This article explores the meanings of refugeeness among Kurdish residents of the self‐managed Lavrio refugee camp in Greece in the aftermath of the 2015 reception crisis. Focusing on how Kurdish camp residents make sense of their political identities and on how they distinguish themselves from those they call ‘non‐political refugees’, the ...
Filyra Vlastou‐Dimopoulou
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Peter Logan: Victorian Fetishism [Audio interview]
Peter Logan is the author of Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose (1997) and, more recently, Victorian Fetishism: Intellectuals and Primitives (2009).
Rowland, Fred, LOGAN, PETER MELVILLE
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Sohn-Rethel und die Häutungen der modernen Physik
Sohn-Rethel always insisted on the necessity of solving the conflict between the use of dialectic in the social sciences and the use of a logic of exclusion in the natural sciences. This article reconstructs the way in which modern physics since 1900 has
Rainer Gruber
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Cancer and Capitalism: Towards a Critical Sociological Agenda
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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Fetishism is the attribution of value to an object. To understand fetishism, therefore, requires a grasp of the value which is attributed to an object. More dynamically, it points to the need to comprehend the mechanisms—the processes—by which value is ...
John Branch
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On "Sourcery," or Code as Fetish [PDF]
This essay offers a sympathetic interrogation of the move within new media studies toward "software studies." Arguing against theoretical conceptions of programming languages as the ultimate performative utterance, it contends that source code is never simply the source of any action; rather, source code is only source code after the fact: its ...
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Class Struggle, Commodity Fetishism, and Historical Materialism in the New Latin American Cinema
ABSTRACT This study examines Latin American cinema after the 2010s through the concepts of class struggle, commodity fetishism, and historical materialism. The study aims to discuss how the region's colonial legacy, neoliberal policies, and current political transformations are reproduced in cinematic narratives.
Doğuşcan Göker +1 more
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Biopolitics : from tribes to commodity fetishism
As much as it consciously subscribes to the belief in human mortality, the normative subject of secular capitalism in its commodity fetishism stage unconsciously knows that it is immortal. In other words, commodity fetishism enacts a radical redefinition
Kordela, Kiarina (R15482)
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Commodity Fetishism as Semblance [PDF]
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.
Skotnicki, Tad +1 more
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Dissociation and Disavowal in Discursive Norm Formation
ABSTRACT Social norms are negotiated in discourses. Discourse participants join together as collective actors in order to pursue their shared interests with the help of norms. However, successfully negotiated norms neither represent the interests of all members of society, nor are all representatives of these norms completely convinced of them. Because
Marek Winkel
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