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715Transnational labor regulation, reification and commodification: A critical reviewJournal of Labor and Society 21 (4): 517-532. 2018.Why does scholarship on transnational labor regulation (TLR) consistently fails to search for improvements in working conditions, and instead devotes itself to relentless efforts for identifying administrative processes, semantics, and amalgamations of stakeholders? This article critiques TLR from a pro-worker perspective, through the philosophical work of Georg Lukács, and the concepts of reification and commodification. A set of theoretically grounded criteria is developed and these ar…Read more
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723Consumption in Cognitive Capitalism: Commodity Riots and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat of ConsumptionKnowledge Cultures 1 (4): 98-105. 2013.We challenge the prevalent opinion that consumption does not seem to matter as much as production and defy the fetishism of industrial work. We explore the implications of the premise that under conditions of cognitive capitalism consumption dictates what production does, when and how. We explain that in a post-industrial global society and economy fashion, branding, instant gratification of desires, and ephemeral consumer tastes govern production and consumption. The London riots of August 2011…Read more
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1325The commodity form in cognitive capitalismCulture and Organization 18 (4): 377-395. 2012.We revisit the Marxist debate on the commodity form. By following the thought of Alfred Sohn-Rethel and Slavoj Žižek, we attempt to understand the commodity form through the Kantian categories a priori. Sohn-Rethel explores the proposition that there can be no cognition independent of its historical and social conditions and puts forward the daring conclusion of an ontological unity between knowledge and commodity exchange. We suggest that Sohn-Rethel’s thought finds new relevance nowadays, unde…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Continental Philosophy |
Value Theory |
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Social and Political Philosophy |