It would be even better if consumers resisted #commodityfetishism and paid musicians the wages they are worth. Surely an album is worth more than $2. Some listeners may not be able to afford that, and that's okay. But radical redistribution of wealth requires something from all of us. It's not just #eattherich, but all of us with means must live more simply and generously. Black folks have been asking this of us white folks for a long time.

#music #anticapitalism #streaming #reparations

https://defector.com/the-hawk-tuah-memecoin-rug-pull-is-the-apotheosis-of-bag-culture

Absent legacy-media prestige or any earlier, outdated marker of status, a way to distinguish yourself, to exhibit prestige, is to be an ambassador for a more prestigious brand. And as the modality of fandom shifts to something like worship, it is simple to see oneself as part of the process and potentially next in line for a big payday.

#capitalism #latecapitalism #alienation #commodityfetishism #cargocult

Hollywood's Fake War on Capitalism
Hollywood has fallen in love with stories that seem to be critiquing capitalism and the rich. And while this might be exhilarating for progressive audiences, are these films actually threatening the system? Or are they making it more powerful? We'll explore in this video on Eat The Rich cinema.
#WiseCrack2, #TheMenu, #VideoEssay, #Movies, #CommodityFetishism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=294qm3oV60s

Burst of trades gives Trump a winning edge in election prediction markets https://www.ft.com/content/11ac92f4-02e4-4313-99b8-264182b74b4b?accessToken=zwAAAZKf6C5qkc8RrJL0AuRDE9OZuCZBgrdLSw.MEUCIQCcpJH88My7WUyInASlLiDj4tv3jlecT-IXsfGETsk8LAIgFCt-ix1Z6euE1sJ91EQbTk-D2023azOZQNWtM6YxXnA&segmentId=e95a9ae7-622c-6235-5f87-51e412b47e97&shareId=0af97ae8-6907-4c63-ba04-f2d25a2d363d&shareType=enterprise

somebody might “want to move the price a few percentage points . . . to affect public beliefs about momentum for a candidate”.

#maga #disinformation #fascism #uspol #trump #polymarket #election2024 #commodityfetishism #propaganda

#Marx #Freud #WertKritik #CommodityFetishism #Capitalism #Psychoanalysis #Narcissism: "Jappe recognizes that the crux of Marx’s concept of commodity fetishism is abstraction. Commodity fetishism is often understood to indicate something like consumerism: an overvaluation of a commodity, a consumer product, on the basis of desire that surpasses need or utility. Here the psychosexual connotations of the fetish sneak in the back door and pose as necessary considerations for a Marxist critique.

Marx’s use of the term in Capital Vol. I is meant somewhat ironically, mocking the limitations of the bourgeois intellect to comprehend its own constitutive categories. Marx was familiar with sociological and anthropological uses of the term, in which the fetish is a sensuous thing that takes on the qualities of the deity or deities and thus holds otherworldly power in its concrete form. Exemplary of pre-enlightenment religious animism, and hence an affront to the power of bourgeois instrumental reason over and against nature. Marx’s point is that what has become naturalized, what appears natural, in capitalism, is unreason, specifically manifested in persistent unfreedom in (social, political and economic) crisis, the unresolved and persistent self-contradiction of bourgeois society.

In Capital Vol. 1, Marx says, that ‘[t]he fetishism of commodities arises from the particular social character of the labor that produces them.’ By particular social character, Marx means the historically specific form of social relations in capitalist society, social relations mediated by labor. This appears totally natural and not as historically specific or created. The fetish-character of capital masks the essence of capitalist society as something distinct from its appearance, and hence, as something that can change."

https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/21688_the-self-devouring-society-capitalism-narcissism-and-self-destruction-by-anselm-jappe-reviewed-by-jamie-keesling/

🔍 Commodity fetishism: We create things, but their value seems detached from our labor 🤔 Products shape our reality & desires, not vice versa 🌀 The irony? Non-material entities (commodities) transform social consciousness 🧠💫 Marketing exploits this brilliantly 📈 #MarxistTheory #ConsumerCulture #CommodityFetishism

Last night I finally learnt what "commodity fetishism" means (hooray for audiobooks).

Anyway, if you need to know, it's an old timey term that they used to describe enshittification. The difference is that it's a little bit more specific about what the problem is.

Do correct me if I am wrong, though.

#enshittification #CommodityFetishism

Obscuring the Veil
Food Advertising as Public Pedagogy

Ellyse Winter

#Commodity #CommodityFetishism #Advertizing #Animal #IndustrialComplex #Pedagogy #PublicPedagogy #CriticalScholarship #FoodPedagogies #CriticalFoodPedagogies

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/377

You go out to buy replacement knobs for a guitar pedal and come back with also capacitors, chinos and Captain Underpants and SLA books. Particularly looking forward to Wizard of Earth sea book I got. #capitalism #CommodityFetishism