Dear all,
we invite paper proposals for our panel ‘From Detachment to
Appropriation: Performing Commodification’ at next year’s EASST
conference in Lancaster from 25-28 July 2018.
The call for papers closes at midnight CET on February 14th, 2018 and
paper proposals can be submitted here:
https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6193
Short abstract
Commodifying is more than just slapping price tags on things. It entails
myriad ways of shaping, measuring, containing, releasing and reattaching
objects, not to mention countless transformations of those who
commodify. Understanding commodification as enriching, this panel asks
how it is performed.
Long abstract
Commodification is more than just slapping price tags on things. All too
often, it has been synonymised with the intrusion of capitalism into the
paradise of values, reducing all of them to the single common
denominator of money. While commodification is regarded as the
degeneration of the social, commodities are denounced as watered-down
emulations of "real" things, the ones that money cannot buy. But what if
commodification was not about impoverishment but enrichment? What if
commodities were not things emptied of old values but laden to the brim
with new ones?
Commodification entails a myriad of techniques for shaping, measuring,
containing, releasing and reattaching things - not to mention the
countless transformations of those who do the commodifying. This panel
gathers perspectives on how commodification is performed and what shape
a thing will have to take to become a commodity. Contributions might
address (but are not limited to) the following questions:
- How do commodities (and not just calculative minds and devices) make
markets?
- What do the calculability and materiality of commodities look like?
- What is done to commodities to make things and people (or things and
things) meet?
- How do ongoing commodification and decommodification go hand in hand?
- What kind of subjects are produced by commodified objects - and vice
versa?
Please find an extended panel proposal here:
https://www.academia.edu/35031678/_Open_Panel_Proposal_From_Detachment_to_Appropriation_Performing_Commodification
We are looking forward to your submissions,
Veit & Saskia
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