“When race and ethnicity become commodified as resources for pleasure, the culture of specific groups, as well as the bodies of individuals, can be seen as constituting an alternative playground where members of dominating races, genders, sexual practices affirm their… — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
“What confirms them in this view is the peculiar circumstance that the use-value of a thing is realized without exchange, i.e., in the direct… — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
“this fetishism of the world of commodities arises from the peculiar social character of the labor which produces them.” — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
“Even feminists who never wore a skirt or make-up went crazy about Kickers, or wore beautifully hand-painted boots in rainbow colors; they adorned themselves… — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
“In mass culture, imperialist nostalgia takes the form of reenacting and reritualizing in different ways the imperialist, colonizing journey as narrative fantasy of power… — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
“Currently, the commodification of difference promotes paradigms of consumption wherein whatever difference the Other inhabits is eradicated, via exchange, by a consumer cannibalism that… — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
“In 1984, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu explored the social patterning of consumption and taste in Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste.… — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
“It is within the commercial realm of advertising that the drama of Otherness finds expression. Encounters with Otherness are clearly marked as more exciting,… — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
“When race and ethnicity become commodified as resources for pleasure, the culture of specific groups, as well as the bodies of individuals, can be… — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
“Certainly from the standpoint of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, the hope is that desires for the “primitive” or fantasies about the Other can be… — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
