"How can you commodify a woman like this?" says Indrekar.
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Having to keep a tally and commodify every hangout is bullshit.
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What does it look like to commodify religion and the church?
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Both characters, in different ways, have learned to commodify their escape.
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The replicants as a whole commodify the full spectrum of human existence.
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Capitalism is also beginning to commodify our emotions, our attentions, and our affections.
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Some may commodify the concept of empowerment, and deserve criticism when they do.
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The movie business can't be allowed to commodify diversity for its own ends.
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But somehow, we've managed to commodify the very people who make it: The baristas.
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While every act of teenage rebellion is instagrammed now, these kids didn't commodify themselves.
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Because then companies can see this thriving community and they're trying to commodify it.
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A better, more sustainable way to commodify the self was to do so piecemeal.
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I believe Bushwick Collective exists not to improve its community but to commodify it.
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Burke: Its sort of like freedom of expression versus commerce and trying to commodify artists.
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Your life, your privacy not material for interviewers to label, commodify for other people's consumption.
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It cannot, however, then be used as a way to commodify our communities or individuals.
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When we start to commodify our hobbies, it brings "deadlines, demands, and accommodation," she says.
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Yet some on the left say economic arguments commodify immigrants or denigrate the native work force.
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Mind you, there doesn't appear to be a whole sinister plot to commodify human ability and talent.
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While a much more vivid way to share and engender empathy, they also threaten to commodify life.
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Today, a well-intentioned diversity rationale is being used to re-commodify and re-exploit racial differences.
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And it's a hell of a lot easier to commodify a party than it is a political act.
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Of course, Ramey Berry argues, the US system of mass incarceration and professional sports continue to commodify black bodies.
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She also doesn't like the idea that people should have to commodify their personal traits in order to find work.
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" Her audience here is not the white reader who seeks to experience — and therefore tokenize, exoticize and commodify — "the other.
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It's used to commodify people's psyches to transform them into commodities that can then be sold on the personality marketplace.
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I get pretty upset when I see it, but when you think about it, there's nothing the media doesn't commodify.
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When the impossible-to-overrate comedy Clueless made Silverstone a star, the rush to commodify her was swift and fiercely stupid.
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At the center of the room, various teacups and plates show Malevich's willingness to commodify his style as early as 1923.
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But it was also a moment that the apparatus of celebrity all around Lovato was working hard to package and commodify.
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Shop girls learned to commodify themselves in pursuit of a better life, consuming to be consumed (and hopefully, married) by their wealthy clients.
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At the same time, commercial films commodify sex, knowing that it sells but never delving deeper than a raunchy song or provocative clothing.
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If I truly wanted to take something from another culture and exploit it and commodify it, I wouldn't have made a documentary film.
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Lifestyle brands have been working tirelessly to commodify bitchcraft culture for years now, before finally giving birth to the basic witch in recent years.
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On the one hand, Ms. Papadopoulos's take on the art and fashion worlds, which commodify and counterfeit every tender human virtue, is clearly unflinching.
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Particularly because, with my stamp of authorship, "Open Casket" could enter into the market and, in turn, commodify the very suffering I wished to explore.
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" In English, that means it seeks to commodify everything remotely related to sleep and its quality because they are all inputs into a "wellness equation.
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The agencies are paid to adapt unstable emerging technologies to marketing and branding efforts, and in the process normalize and commodify them for a mainstream audience.
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What I don't enjoy is when someone, such as Sirin Labs with the Solarin phone, tries to reverse the process and de-commodify basic technological goods.
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I'd prefer my work to be contextualized in the frame of mindfulness: of being mindful of a person as an experience and not trying to commodify it.
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"If one of the goals of the ESA is to de-commodify wildlife when they're imperiled, this concept of pay-to-play is really troubling," Sanerib said.
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A rapper can post to flesh out his world; an internet star can turn toward music as a way to commodify the world she has already created.
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They wondered what sorts of meanings could be created if they vacuum-formed natural objects: "These experiments were an effort to somewhat commodify nature and humanness," Clancy said.
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Around noon, everyone involved—the teenage colossuses in their uniforms and the khaki masses there to commodify them—went outside to a big white tent and ate burgers.
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That means demanding that one job pay us enough to raise our families without being forced to commodify every moment of our free time just to get by.
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But he felt tremendous ambivalence about what gaining resources to preserve his culture, or any native culture, seemed to require: allowing outsiders, whether academics or reporters, to commodify it.
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It's easy to talk about Black people as Black Panthers or as revolutionaries — we can deal with that, we can commodify that, we can sell that, we can control that.
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The way social media networks commodify IRL relationships is troubling as well, as Facebook and other social networks have become the de facto mechanism of acknowledging birthdays and confirming romantic commitments.
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Van Donna describes herself as a pop artist, but where Andy Warhol created pop art to commodify the ordinary, Van Donna uses its techniques to explore themes like romance and luxury.
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These stories exist in a sort of hyperreality, ordinary characters living in the not-so-unbelievable, Black Mirror–esque future of a culture that doesn't hesitate to commodify cruelty or monetize revolution.
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The marker, announced on Twitter this morning by campaign manager Brad Parscale, is the latest effort by the campaign to amplify and then commodify what could have been a relatively minor controversy.
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As straight people commodify and perform allyship, showing off just how supportive and "down" we are, we risk lifting queer friends from the closet to a pedestal — also a lonely place to be.
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After all, if you attempt to commodify something as diverse and storied as club culture into a radio edit, you're only ever going to end up with something that feels fleeting, or shallow.
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And so you watch him call out record labels and A&Rs for trying to commodify his aesthetic while he rolls through the parts of the city that shaped the artist he is today.
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And, considering his single disappointing year with the Knicks, the artwork also calls to mind clearance racks at sports store, a reminder of how sports can commodify and dispose of so much youth and talent.
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Given that scientists from every corner of the globe agree that the world has an ever-shortening window to curb emissions, allowing the extractive industries an easier path to commodify the Earth is extremely alarming.
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And through this reframing, it became easier to commodify and individualize this experience as one akin to leasing a car—if you, an individual, want this service, you'll have to pay for it, and pay big.
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Bader came of age as the art world was reaching its commercial peak, and his contribution to this history is to commodify conceptual art itself — some of his work is only complete once it is bought.
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Back in Italy in subsequent decades, working as a journalist and an educator, she became a leading feminist voice, a rigorous critic of the ways the media and fashion industries manipulate and commodify women's bodies and experiences.
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I think there's a difference between being a vulture and trying to commodify people and culture, or misuse folks and their labor, versus being paid for your art in a way that allows you to continue to make art.
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But race and racial tension — especially in the context of continued violence against people of color in the United States, an issue on which the public is deeply divided — are not quite as easy to simply commodify and brand.
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Telling the truth with precision and rage and a visionary's eye, using both realism and fabulism, is one way to break through the white noise of a consumerist culture that tries to commodify post-apocalyptic fiction, to render it safe.
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Now, as in the 19th century — the heyday of what we might call a "sex robot panic" — the image of the sex robot is a cultural specter of the way an increasingly capitalist, increasingly technologically advanced society tends to commodify human beings.
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LinkedIn, like a number of other venture-backed "coaching" services that are trying to commodify good advice, wants you to skip right to the awkward and unpleasant moment when you and another person must own up to the shallow, transactional nature of your relationship.
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But in theory, one of the purposes of a subscription fee is to isolate users from this sort of data mining: If a company can establish its financial solvency through direct payments, then it won't be forced to commodify the private information of freeloading users.
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And the Motor City itself seems to have warped our blind, badass home defender, a former war hero mesmerizingly played by Stephen Lang, into a man who has to dehumanize and commodify the people who've invaded his life for the sake of his own survival.
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The backlash was swift — with critics taking to social media to call both Pinrose and Sephora out on the decision to commodify a religion that's long been demonized by the mainstream (Salem, ever heard of it?) and box it up into a cutesy, mass-market-friendly derivative.
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It's a platform built to literally trade in appearances, and to commodify illusions of health and beauty and domestic bliss, and has been used — for years — to make money for companies or individuals with an image to sell and not much science to back it up.
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Early on in The Attention Merchants, Tim Wu's startling and sweeping examination of the increasingly ubiquitous commercial effort to capture and commodify our attention, we are presented with a sort of cognitive paradox: To pay attention to one thing we need to screen other things out.
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While those living it make their own discoveries, mistakes and art, generational descriptions are almost always the work of elders ("the younger generation"), youngers ("our parents' generation") or marketers (Silent, Greatest, Boomer, Pepsi) attempting to commodify the unstoppable cultural changes that accompany the forward movement of time.
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"We want to return to the notion that homeownership can be an asset builder for working people and average American families, and it is not just a vehicle to commodify to make the rich richer," said Josh Orton, a senior adviser to the Sanders campaign and its national policy director.
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There's still a visible blurriness between whose tweets we're precisely reading—the brand or the people behind the brand—and this is surely not the last time, intentional or not, a sugary drink will commodify our sadness, or we'll jump to conclusions about the emotions of the people running a certain account.
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We neglect their inconvenient but very real trauma, because it is expensive and a bummer, or else we commodify them as part of The Troops, a haphazardly politicized battalion who Did Not Risk Their Lives so that whatever culture-war meme of the moment could be perpetrated on grumpy Facebook addicts here at home.
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" Eleanor Hancock, a graduate student studying the effects of technology on the sex industry and a panelist at the 2nd International Love and Sex with Robots Congress held in London last month, says that sex robots (largely designed for, and by, men) commodify women, "but we already have real people selling sex—this is about something else.
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I would think of best practices, and this is just going off of a compilation of talking to a bunch of different people would be that a private company looking to buy something from you or use something of yours, commodify you in essence, should be upfront about exactly what they're doing and make sure you have fully informed consent.
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"Progress," and the feminist project for women in Hollywood, looks like many things, including, but not limited to: women in roles like spies or superheroes, historically relegated to men; women working with female directors and screenwriters to surface more complicated roles for women; women producing the projects that matter to them; women advocating for — and refusing to work without — equal pay; and women suggesting that their value, as actors, is not contingent on their ability to market or commodify their private lives.
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Mansfield 2004 (p. 565) Water, also, does not commodify easily due to its physical properties, which leads to differentiation in its governing institutions.Bakker & Bridge 2006 (p. 18) The demarcation and pricing of nature-based commodities is thus problematic.
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In this case they are concerned with returning water back to the global commons. NGOs and members of civil society have formed voluntary networks with the aim of banning future decisions to further commodify water. These movements have arisen in opposition to capitalist accumulation through globalisation and are serving to decrease the trend in commodification.
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The ideology of eco-capitalism was adopted to satisfy two competing needs: #the desire for generating profit by businesses in a capitalist society and #the urgency for proper actions to address a struggling environment negatively impacted by human activity. Under the doctrine of eco-capitalism, businesses commodify the act of addressing environmental issues. The following are common principles in the transition to eco-capitalism.
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"... a fascinating, funny, and frightening glimpse of what happens when we commodify human beings. Although it addresses globalization, the play's issues are universal. - Backstage "Savage, swiftian and with humour so black that what little laughter it provokes is painful, Manjula Padmanabhan's award- winning play is really an allegory about relationships." - India Today "Harvest compels from beginning to end, creating a not-so-fanciful futuristic world that's pretty darned scary.
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881-908 If a tourist feels that a heritage site is producing a dubious interpretation of a cultural expression or experience, the site loses its "authenticity" and it becomes less marketable, and harder to commodify. Three sites in Kenya trace the commodification of particular aspects of the Maasai tribal culture, and how these sites are marketed with varying degrees of commodification and authenticity in order to satisfy tourist expectations.
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Entertainment companies in Korea use a boot-camp system in grooming their idols. In the case of S.M. Entertainment, the company receives 300,000 applicants in nine countries every year. They possess training facilities in the Gangnam district of Seoul, where recruits then train for years in anticipation of their debut. SM was called the first company to market "bands as brands", and commodify not just the artists' product, but the artist(s) themselves.
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Until 1924, US farmers received seed from the federal government's extensive free seed program that distributed millions of packages of seed annually. At its high point in 1897, over 2 million packages of seed were distributed to farmers. Even at the time the program was eliminated in 1924, it was the third largest line item in the United States Department of Agriculture's budget. In 1930, seed companies were not primarily concerned with varietal production, but were still trying to successfully commodify seeds.
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Devon, UK: Willan. Bio-piracy is largely an effort by corporations to commodify native knowledge and to turn native knowledge and practices into for-profit products while depriving native peoples of their rights to that knowledge and those products, and in most cases, avoiding payments to natives for their knowledge or products. Bio- piracy includes issues of social and economic justice for native peoples. These kinds of crimes fall into the category of eco-crimes, a term associated with the work of Reece Walters.
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Thomas C. Johnson wrote that what most interests modern critics was Riley's ability to market his work, saying he had a unique understanding of "how to commodify his own image and the nostalgic dreams of an anxious nation". Among the earliest widespread criticisms of Riley were opinions that his dialect writing did not actually represent the true dialect of central Indiana. In 1970 Peter Revell wrote Riley's dialect was more like the poor speech of a child rather than the dialect of his region. He made extensive comparisons to historical texts and Riley's dialect usage.
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Full commodification faces difficulties theoretically as it relies on an economic good or service being standardised and readily exchangeable in the market place irrespective of its spatial and temporal dimensions. Bakker argues that this is nearly impossible for water due to its biophysical characteristics that contravene all efforts to fully commodify. Capitalism depends on a changing balance between (re-)commodification and decommodification, which as Bob Jessop points out means that the processes of commodification, decommodification and recommodification will continue to appear in ‘waves’ due to capitalism's continual pursuit of accumulation by dispossession.
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Her book Being and Being Bought,Ekman, Kajsa Ekis: Being and Being Bought - Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self. Melbourne: Spinifex Press, 2013 compares the sex industry and the surrogacy industry, and how they both commodify women's bodies. It criticizes the notion of "sex work" as being an unholy alliance between the neoliberal right and the postmodern left, used to legitimize the sex industry. She also argues that "trade unions for sex workers" in many cases are funded by pimps, states, and academics, and have very little to do with labor struggle.
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Harvey's interpretation has been criticized by Brass, who disputes the view that what is described as present-day primitive accumulation, or accumulation by dispossession, entails proletarianization. Because the latter is equated by Harvey with the separation of the direct producer (mostly smallholders) from the means of production (land), Harvey assumes this results in the formation of a workforce that is free. By contrast, Brass points out that in many instances the process of depeasantization leads to workers who are unfree, because they are unable personally to commodify or recommodify their labour- power, by selling it to the highest bidder.
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Womb commodification could be viewed as economic agents engaged in free market trade. The commodification argument asks whether women are being given control over their body, or whether they are being exploited for their individual body parts with monetary incentives. An ethical argument against womb commodification is that it allows the rich to take advantage of the willingness of poor women to perform any job as long as they are able to earn a wage. A woman may choose to commodify her womb for money because she is faced with no other profitable options for employment, however the payment arrangement and monetary value varies from case to case.
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Companies then algorithmically arrange data, and consumers lose ownership of their data to the intellectual property owners and data brokerage firms to commodify, thus becoming a part of the larger Big Data economy. In a $300 billion-a-year industry, currently no legislation specific to the regulation of third-party data broker firms exists. Third-party data broker firms are not restricted by Federal Trade Commission regulations, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act, as well as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. It is very difficult for consumers to opt-in and out of having data collected about them, whereby their data ownership rights become very limited.
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Erik Olin Wright Harry Shutt proposed basic income and other measures to make most or all businesses collective rather than private. These measures would create a post-capitalist economic system. Erik Olin Wright characterizes basic income as a project for reforming capitalism into an economic system by empowering labor in relation to capital, granting workers greater bargaining power with employers in labor markets, which can gradually de-commodify labor by separating work from income. This would allow for an expansion in the scope of the social economy by granting citizens greater means to pursue non-work activities (such as art or other hobbies) that do not yield strong financial returns.
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Regarding women's rights and land empowerment, Kerry Rittich notes that programmes which promote the formal real property rights of women, in place of customary laws or other informal mechanisms, have the potential to both improve and retard women's access to land. The programmes promoting property rights tend to go together with measures to formalize, commodify, and individualize landholdings, and that these three processes often intensify the dispossession of women who may have had access to land under informal arrangements or customary law. The promotion of property rights from an economic perspective may well undermine the social rights of women in developing countries. Legal conceptions of property, treat property not as a mere resource but as a set of relations between individuals and groups.
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In fact, more often than not, women who have entered the paid workforce often face a "double shift" of work, the first paid work in the labor market and the second unpaid housework. According to one global estimate, women spend 4.5 hours of unpaid work per day, twice as many hours as men do on average. Other criticisms include the concern that providing wages for housework would commodify intimate human relationships of love and care and would subsume them into capitalist relations. However, proponents of wages for housework contest this "reductive view" of their proposal. For instance, according to Silvia Federici the demand for wages for housework is not just about remuneration for unpaid work or women’s financial empowerment and independence.
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Published in 1992, The Nervous System comprises nine essays. Michael Taussig sets out on a journey to explore and describe various forces that shape and mold our present society. He tries to explore the process through which we commodify the state and in that way transfer the power to it. Taussig attempts to show how the state uses forces such as violence or media control to consolidate its power over the people. He argues that we live in a state of emergency, citing Walter Benjamin, that is not ‘an exception but the rule.’ To show the universality of the nervous system he takes his reader through the heights of Machu Picchu, the world of Cuna shamans, and the pale world of New York's hospital system.
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In light of this, the commodification of water can be viewed as a market-based governance approach which seeks to confront conflicts between public and private interests and as such part of a broader shift in focus 'government' to 'governance'. Governance represents a new method by which society is governed which seeks to involve more stakeholders in decision making. The release of the water sector from state ownership and subsequent efforts to commodify water allow for more individual actors to participate in decision making thereby increasing the probability of consensual decisions being produced, which would not have been possible when decisions were previously made by one actor, the government. The states role in environmental problems was realigned and scaled down to be positioned as just one of many stakeholders aligned along horizontal networks.
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He met several high officials of the government of Tibet, studied Tantric Yoga and collected many books on Tibetan Buddhism. Bernard was an accomplished and energetic photographer, shooting "an astounding 326 rolls of film (11,736 exposures) as well as 20,000 feet of motion picture film" during his three months in Tibet in a "near obsessive documentation" of what he saw. In the view of Namiko Kunimoto, Bernard's photographs taken in the East served to authenticate the travel narrative and to construct Tibet "as a site of personal transformation." Back in America, Bernard's photographs of himself, whether in Tibetan dress or performing yoga poses such as Baddhapadmasana in the studio (a photo that also appears as plate XX in his Hatha Yoga), appeared frequently in The Family Circle magazine from 1938, "reveal[ing] his willingness to commodify spirituality and assumptions of exoticism".
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The increased usage of cross-device tracking by advertisers is indicative of the rise of a new era of data extraction and analysis as a form of profit, or surveillance capitalism, a term coined by Shoshana Zuboff. This form of capitalism seeks to commodify private human experience to create behavioral futures markets, in which behavior is predicted and behavioral data is harvested from the user. Zuboff suggests that this new era of surveillance capitalism eclipses Bentham's panopticon, becoming far more encroaching and invasive as, unlike a prison, there is no escape, and the thoughts, feelings, and actions of users are immediately extracted to be commodified and resold. Thus, since cross-device tracking seeks to create a profile of a user across multiple devices, big tech companies, such as Google, could use this behavioral data to make predictions about the user's future behavior without the user's awareness.
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The frivolity and patronizing natures of Alicia and Don Ramon diminish the authority behind their stereotyped view of Mexican natives. In spite of references such as Miss Cherry's to Mexico's “picturesque atmosphere” in “The Education of Popo,” Mena's cast of characters explicitly avoid being confined to this stereotypical framework.Mena, 53. Popo does not fit into Alicia Cherry's conception of a “summer flirtation” and he ultimately refuses to be framed by Alicia's lips, either by the deceptive words emanating from them or by an actual kiss. More obviously, Petra in “The Gold Vanity Set” rebels against Miss Young's desire to commodify her ‘picturesqueness’ by refusing to be photographed, and the Senorita in “The Vine Leaf” blots out her face in the esteemed painting that would literally put her figure in a frame. Even within the painting, the smudging from the face creates a “rude rubbing that in some places has overlapped the justly painted frame of the mirror”.
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