Category: A.O. George
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Gendered Commodities: Identity-Formation by Consumption
“Many have found symbolic interactionism useful for understanding the construction of gender and sexuality. West and Zimmerman’s (1987) ‘Doing gender’ set the stage for the social constructionist research on gender and sexuality. The concept of ‘doing gender’ demonstrates the socially constructed nature of masculinity and femininity as developing out of repeated, patterned interaction and socialization…
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Carcerality and Colonialism: Magic-Capital and the Politics of the Subjective Realm
Our modern world is laden with the bearings of science, technology, and the march or tendency towards infinite progress, as if the destined nature of humanity is the cyborg future envisioned by the dystopian stories of our time. Magic, and even the concept of the supernatural, is no longer preoccupied in the conscious, and the…
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Meaning as Substance: Navigating the Desert of Modern Language in an Age of Discontent
“Thorough, adamant and uncompromising privatization of all concerns has been the main factor that has rendered postmodern society so spectacularly immune to systemic critique and radical social dissent with revolutionary potential.” Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and Ambivalence “This construction [the virtual] is a new, topological body which is a projection of a non-topology into a topological arena. This…
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Socialized Zombies: the Death of the Future
Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us. –Mark Fisher, “Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative” In the current age of neoliberal capitalism, our technologized world has grown more inundated with the wiles of…
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