Juliet Schor

“What confirms them in this view is the peculiar circumstance that the use-value of a thing is realized without exchange, i.e., in…

— Juliet Schor

“this fetishism of the world of commodities arises from the peculiar social character of the labor which produces them.”

— Juliet Schor

“Even feminists who never wore a skirt or make-up went crazy about Kickers, or wore beautifully hand-painted boots in rainbow colors; they…

— Juliet Schor

“In mass culture, imperialist nostalgia takes the form of reenacting and reritualizing in different ways the imperialist, colonizing journey as narrative fantasy…

— Juliet Schor

“Currently, the commodification of difference promotes paradigms of consumption wherein whatever difference the Other inhabits is eradicated, via exchange, by a consumer…

— Juliet Schor

“In 1984, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu explored the social patterning of consumption and taste in Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement…

— Juliet Schor

“It is within the commercial realm of advertising that the drama of Otherness finds expression. Encounters with Otherness are clearly marked as…

— Juliet Schor

“When race and ethnicity become commodified as resources for pleasure, the culture of specific groups, as well as the bodies of individuals,…

— Juliet Schor

“Certainly from the standpoint of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, the hope is that desires for the “primitive” or fantasies about the Other…

— Juliet Schor