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A Constructed Situation and a Cotton Banner

open access: yesParse Journal, 2021
In 2009, British artist Jeremy Deller’s work It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq entered the permanent collections of three US museums. It is described by the collecting institutions as a “constructed situation and cotton banner.” Curatorial ...
Joey Orr
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Digital Labour and the Use-value of Human Work. On the Importance of Labouring Capacity for understanding Digital Capitalism

open access: yestripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2014
On the face of its virtual and immaterial appearance, digital labour often is seen as a phenomenon of abstract work. Contrary to that common understanding, in Marx’ theory the abstraction of labour derives from its historical development into a commodity,
Sabine Pfeiffer
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Inside the Black Box: Advancing Climate Disclosure in Australia's Energy Sector to Support a Resilient National Electricity Market

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Alongside the 2024–2025 review of the National Electricity Market, Australian energy companies faced the most significant reforms to climate disclosures in corporate history. Specifically, the Australian Sustainability Reporting Standard for Climate‐related Disclosures (AASB S2) was announced in September 2024, after which all entities falling
Tracey Dodd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Amidst (waste) abundance: world‐making and struggles in hosting a municipal landfill in the Bolivian lowlands Au milieu de l'abondance (de déchets) : fabrication du monde et luttes liées à la gestion d'une décharge municipale dans les basses terres de Bolivie

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In recent decades, solid waste has proliferated worldwide, becoming a pressing global issue. This article explores the role of Indigenous people dwelling within and upon emerging waste scenarios, with a specific focus on involved forms of sociality and ontological contestation. Drawing on the case of a municipal landfill sited on a Guarani community in
Vanesa Martín Galán
wiley   +1 more source

‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI « Tout est signal » : circuits parlants et signes bruyants dans la création de l'IA orientée langage

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
wiley   +1 more source

Moral rights at the immaterial cultural heritage [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
O presente trabalho objetiva estudar as normas que regulamentam o patrimônio cultural imaterial, no Brasil, criado, desenvolvido, preservado e detido por comunidades tradicionais identificáveis, a fim de verificar se essas comunidades possuem direitos ...
Campos, Anita Pissolito
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Predatory pricing

open access: yesČasopis pro Právní Vědu a Praxi, 2008
The price naturally reflects not just the amount of work vested into the goods but it is affected also by a number of other immaterial circumstances (fashion, consumer preferences, branded and unbranded goods, effects of promotion, marketing and ...
Josef Bejček
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Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
wiley   +1 more source

Personal dilemmas in the banking immaterial labour [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The present qualitative exploratory research aims to analyze the experience of personal dilemmas in the context of banking immaterial labor. The theoretical support is mainly offered by Bauman, Sennett and Gaulejac.
Scalco, Priscila Daniel   +2 more
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