Just in time for the holiday season, the new issue of Culture &
Organization on commodities and markets… cheers, stevphen
Culture & Organization Issue on “Commodities & Markets”
Edited by Ming Lim & Stevphen Shukaitis
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gsco20/current
What would commodities say if they could speak? Marx’s wistful question
can seem playful in some registers. And yet, if Marx had listened long
enough, these talking commodities would have announced the traumas of
their exploitative and violent birthing to him. Paul Jennings, for
instance, proposed in his “Report of Existentialism” that everyday
objects are constantly at war with their users: “things are against us,”
he gleefully pronounces. What forms do these wars with objects take?
Where do they take us in the world of lived experiences? These
questions, among others, animate this issue of Culture and Organization.
Objects voice themselves not only through our playful – or rueful –
gaze. Eventually, one imagines, they would have described the nature of
the various forms of labour necessary for their production in the
capitalist mode. As Fred Moten points out, history is marked by the
revolt of the screaming commodity: the body of the slave fighting
against its imposed status of thing-liness.
Table of Contents
Editorial – Ming Lim & Stevphen Shukaitis
Will the fair trade revolution be marketised? Commodification,
decommodification and the political intensity of consumer politics –
Eleftheria J. Lekakis
It stands on its head: Commodity fetishism, consumer activism, and the
strategic use of fantasy –
Stephen Duncombe
The commodity form in cognitive capitalism – George Tsogas
The commodity and its Other – Elmar Flatschart
Education, animals, and the commodity form – Helena Pedersen
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