For a key hallmark of the neoliberal era, which kicked off in Britain on 3 May 1979, has been "commodification" – ie the turning of things never before seen as goods into commodities, to be bought and sold.
His subject is the commodification of the black body in Western culture, seen first in the slave trade, then in sports, fashion and sex.
In essence, this is the commodification of news.
"What we are against," Harvey says with great solemnity, "is the commodification of culture".
"What we are against," Harvey says solemnly, "is the commodification of culture".
One of the most defining characteristics of a liberal market is the commodification of labour 1 (Polanyi, 2001; Shields & Grant, 2010, p. 61),2 a situation where work is freely bought and sold as 'labour' on a market at a market price, such as 'wages' (Polanyi, 1977, p. 13).
CC: One of the things that's changed since 1980 is the commodification and parody of preppy -- as in the Smirnoff "Tea Partay" commercial.
"Let's not sugarcoat what's being proposed, which is the commodification of living in and moving through urban space," Lorinc wrote.
So much of our world today is about commodification, from art to culture to attitudes, that it's easy to lose track of what it can really mean to just be you.
