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... labour of their historical authors. Barthes fails to address the difference between the author as a creative practitioner and authority figures. With this, he does not take into account in his essay the fact that creative writers have ...
... labour of their historical authors. Barthes fails to address the difference between the author as a creative practitioner and authority figures. With this, he does not take into account in his essay the fact that creative writers have ...
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... labour as a commodity and labour as a matter of real lives. Positing labour as just a commodity in denial of realities serves to relegate real lives, especially feminine lives, to the status of the expendable. And, obviously, ecological ...
... labour as a commodity and labour as a matter of real lives. Positing labour as just a commodity in denial of realities serves to relegate real lives, especially feminine lives, to the status of the expendable. And, obviously, ecological ...
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... labour, political or otherwise, after the event, when they at the time of urgency or emergence they did nothing. Or, vaguely, it could relate to the fetishisation of the radical as after-image, icon, fashion. What could be added to ...
... labour, political or otherwise, after the event, when they at the time of urgency or emergence they did nothing. Or, vaguely, it could relate to the fetishisation of the radical as after-image, icon, fashion. What could be added to ...
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... labour-capacity into the objective components of capital, the latter becomes a monster endowed with life [belebten Ungeheurer], and begins to function “as though it had love in its bosom”' (CW, 34, 415). This monstrosity of capital and ...
... labour-capacity into the objective components of capital, the latter becomes a monster endowed with life [belebten Ungeheurer], and begins to function “as though it had love in its bosom”' (CW, 34, 415). This monstrosity of capital and ...
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Contents
From monstrosity and technoperformativity to sumud 13 | |
Radiance or brilliance 75 | |
the philosophical type 93 | |
women of Zimbabwe 126 | |
Shakespeare the shaman 162 | |
a conclusion 190 | |
Notes 218 | |
Index 234 | |
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