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Feminist Anthropology, Volume 7, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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Commodity Fetishism, Legal Fetishism, Converted Forms, and Aesthetic Fetishism
Život umjetnosti : časopis o modernoj i suvremenoj umjetnosti i arhitekturi, 2019 In this paper, we analyse two recent contributions to the Marxist critique of the political economy of art: the article “Artistic Labor and the Production of Value: An Attempt at a Marxist Interpretation” by José María Durán and the book Art and Value: Art’s Economic Exceptionalism in Classical, Neoclassical and Marxist Economics by Dave Beech.
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HumanitiesDespite the censorship imposed by the GHQ in postwar Japan, the period saw the launch of numerous fetish magazines featuring explicit sexual expression.
Soojung Park
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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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From commodity fetishism to commodity narcissism
, 2012 Marketing and consumer researchers have taken an increasing interest in the prevalence of and possibilities for enlightened consumerism. Contemporary studies show us, though, that ethically concerned consumers rarely act on their concerns – instead they ...
Stephen Dunne (5006147) +5 more
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Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology, 2013 I will answer the question "what's in a copy?" by considering three sets of related issues: the importance of copies in academia; in cultural life; and in the economic world.
Gustavo Lins Ribeiro
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Narrating Entanglement Without Dehumanisation in Contemporary Eco‐Fiction
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT This essay presents a comparative analysis of two contemporary works of eco‐fiction, Richard Powers's The Overstory (2018) and Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood (2023). Both novels use multiperspective narration in the service of entanglement narratives, forms of storytelling that emphasise the interconnection of human and nonhuman life.
Diana Rose Newby
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Art, production and market conditions: Gottfried Semper’s historical perspective on commodities and the role of museums [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2015 This paper looks at Gottfried Semper’s notions on the commodity and capitalism. When Semper attended the Great Exhibition, he realized the enormous impact that capitalist industries and interests have had on the arts.
Claudio Leoni
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La « religion » d’Antonio Gramsci
AstérionReligion, in the writings of Antonio Gramsci, has been seen as a model for describing the theoretical status of the “philosophy of praxis”. His constant reference to historical religions has sometimes been criticised as a challenge to the scientificity ...
Marie Lucas
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Fetishism and the Problem of Disavowal [PDF]
, 2019 Purpose Fetishism has been often linked to misrecognition and false belief, to one being “ideologically duped” so to speak. But could we think that fetishism may be precisely the very opposite?
Kuldova, Tereza
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