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Commercialization and the Far Right: Consuming and Constituting Extremism
by Cynthia Miller-Idriss* Advertisers and marketers have long known that brands and commercial products are deeply intertwined with individuals’ identities. But with few exceptions, mainstream social scientists have been slow to acknowledge that economic objects can have constitutive power for … Continue reading
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C. Wright Mills on the Personality Market
White Collar: The American Middle Classes is a pioneering and major study of the American middle class by a prominent sociologist C. Wright Mills, published in 1951. In this book Mills analyzes various aspects of the forming of a new … Continue reading
Christmas and conspicuous consumption: “People want something that shows money”
The commercialization of Christmas in the light of — and in the wake of — industrial capitalism in the UK and US during the 19th century is a very interesting subject matter. (At the end of this post there four … Continue reading
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Political economy of Ebola — one picture and two articles
— “Drug companies’ refusal to invest in research [of Ebola] and the conditions on the ground created by neoliberal policies that exacerbate and even encourage outbreaks goes unmentioned. […] Ebola is a problem that is not being solved because there is almost … Continue reading
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Slavoj Žižek: Why our guilt about consumption is all-consuming?
Slavoj Žižek: “One should introduce the distinction between pleasure and enjoyment elaborated by the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan: what Lacan calls jouissance (enjoyment) is a deadly excess beyond pleasure, which is by definition moderate. We thus have two extremes: on the one … Continue reading
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Art and Money. Artists no longer simply create art, they make markets
Conventional boundaries within the art world have collapsed, and artists now think strategically about how to advance their careers. In Art of the Deal: Contemporary Art in a Global Financial Market Noah Horowitz thoroughly exposes the inner workings of the … Continue reading
Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine
Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine is an excellent award-winning book that systematically examine why academic science made such a dramatic move toward the market. Drawing on extensive historical research, Elizabeth Popp Berman shows how the government–influenced … Continue reading
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Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of 19th Century America
A new multidisciplinary collection of researches and essays Capitalism Takes Command, edited by Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith, presents a history of family farming, general incorporation laws, mortgage payments, inheritance practices, office systems, and risk management—an inventory of the means … Continue reading
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