The plant medicine hayakwaska (#ayahuasca), marketed as a mystical shortcut to healing and #enlightenment, is an example of what the Indigenous storyteller Nina Gualinga, sees as #commodification and #extractivism in the Amazon.
.., and she speaks with the memory of her shaman grandfather about the ongoing #culturalappropriation, environmental destruction and #marginalisation of her people, questioning our very relationship to the Earth and the quest for healing
Isn’t it uncomfortable?
Is there nothing we won’t bastardise, commercialise & degrade?
We have brought #bees/#nature to the brink. Natural systems we depend upon to exist. Unnatural systems such as this compound the damage.
Please #repost. Share.
For bees.
So people know.
Likes are great but reposts amplify this.
Thanks folks.
🐝🌍🙏🏼🫡
14/14
#worldbeesanctuary
#bees
#nature
#bumblebees
#commodification
#truth
#food
#insects
#wildlife
#share
Forget the elephant in the room. Let’s talk about the #bumblebees in the box. A thread on the commodification of bumblebees to produce your #food.
The numbers, why it’s bad for wild bees and how they kill them when they’re no longer of use.
Please #share.
#repost
For #bees
Likes are nice but reposts impact.
1/14
#nature
#pollinators
#insects
#commodification
I just reviewed Chocolate Chip City by Be Steadwell📚
#BywaterBooks #BeSteadwell #romance #family #sisters #dating #wlw #love #gentrification #politics #WashingtonDC #magic #lgbtq+ #community #systemicinequity #commodification #romance
https://womenusingwords.wordpress.com/2025/06/05/chocolate-chip-city/
https://x.com/BladeoftheS/status/1928825147043053971
#greed #nature #commodification
#environment #ecology #biodiversity #agroecology #climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #tiktok #cdnpoli #electricity #solar #energy #geopolitics #china #africa #mexico #cuba #venezuela @blackmastodon @BLKNewsNow @environment
❓ Can squatting and street art challenge the commodification of our cities?
Our new #OpenAccess article in the spotlight explores how #urban artists in #Groningen, #Netherlands, use squatting and commoning to resist #housing #commodification and reclaim space amid creative #city redevelopment.
Read our interview with the authors:
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/blog/open-access-publication-in-the-spotlight-social-infrastructures-as-pillars-of-resistance-against
Thought of the day, week, month, year, life:
#capitalism is despicable. I truly don’t want to manifest hatred in my life, but I can’t help but feel hate towards Capitalism.
The #commodification of life is the gravest human error & we must put an end to it at once - we should all embrace #anticapitalism
Our lived experiences, the depth of our interactions, shared growth, belonging, community, mutual support for goals, the incredible #environment - that’s what matters in life ❤️🌍👈
"As part of the WTO-driven shift, universities faced pressure to generate their own resources by raising fees or seeking private sector involvement."
"Much like scientific management in industrial production, which fragmented labor into repetitive, quantifiable tasks, the push for standardized academic data reduces educational experience to a collection of data points—credits earned, and IDs assigned."
#India #publicgood #education #commodification #privatization
NDP won't support first budget unless it includes rent control #housing #commodification #rentcontrol #renters #canada #ndp #liberal #conservative #election
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/ndps-platform-to-demand-national-rent-control-for-partys-support-of-first-budget-source/article_979a4b3b-2031-43fd-9c53-f2c11ed60611.html
Real estate spectulators get sued and lose money because greed isn't always good. “People don't do their due diligence and they don't look at the negatives of what can happen with the preconstruction market because they get sold on the dream.” #greed #housing #commodification #REITs #investors #canada https://www.thestar.com/real-estate/this-condo-investor-is-being-sued-for-860-000-for-failing-to-close-hes-one/article_e0442c6a-dec0-4f72-8fce-c67d32942135.html
The decline of SFX serves as a valuable lesson regarding the challenges of commodifying a subculture, highlighting the resilience of outsider communities. Prior to the rise of electronic dance music (EDM), dance music had thrived for decades as a grassroots and often marginalized community, with its members cautious of any efforts to exploit its cherished authenticity. Despite SFX's attempts to engage with a new generation of dance music enthusiasts, it struggled to resonate with the dedicated core audience at the heart of the genre. SFX developed within the EDM boom, a time when it seemed that electronic dance music would dominate the industry. However, the transition of a subculture into the mainstream can often alienate its foundational audience. As casual fans shift their interests elsewhere, a significant void is left behind.
#DanceMusic #subculture vs #EDM #mainstream #MusicHistory #DigitalMusic #distribution #SFX #beatport #alienation #commodification #profits #electronic #DanceMusic #MarginalizedCommunities #originators #MusicScenes #aficionados #music #OnlineMusic #MusicStores #CoreAudience #history
Tyystin uusi SEP-entry kriittisen teorian näkövinkkelistä estetiikkaan, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aesthetics-critical-theory/
Löytyisikö tuota kautta filosofista vipuvartta vastustaa taiteen kaupallistamista?
#sep #estetiikka #aesthetics #criticalTheory #commodification #kaupallisuus #taide #kesytönTaide #kriittisyys #kapitalismi #capitalism #philosophy #filosofia #experience #taidepolitiikka
Hopped Up is a global history of beer describing how diverse local styles became standardized through industrialization into the light, crisp style known as Pilsner.
Featured in 2025 CAFS Social, Book Launch and Awards Ceremony
When: June 3, 2025, 7:00-9:30 pm
Where: And/Ore, 1040 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1H7
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2025-cafs-social-book-launch-and-awards-ceremony-tickets-1278375047179
#CongreSSH #CAFS2025 #ACEA2025
#Beer #Brewing #BrewingScience #BeerStyle #Commodification #Gender #Empire #Technology #IndustrialConsolidation #CraftBeer
Today's commercial festivities—with green attire, shamrocks, and leprechaun imagery—raise valid questions about #CulturalAppropriation and #Commodification.
The celebration has been recontextualised outside of Ireland, transformed from a religious observance to a secular party.
Hopped Up is a global history of beer describing how diverse local styles became standardized through industrialization into the light, crisp style known as Pilsner.
Featured in 2025 CAFS Social, Book Launch and Awards Ceremony
When: June 3, 2025, 7:00-9:30 pm
Where: And/Ore, 1040 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1H7
https://foodstudies.info/news-conferences/upcoming-conference/
#Beer #Brewing #BrewingScience #BeerStyle #Commodification #Gender #Empire #Technology #IndustrialConsolidation #CraftBeer
In this interview conducted by Tiare Gatti Mora, sociologist & author Carlos Delclós dive into the housing crisis and the grassroots resistance against mass tourism, as local communities fight back against skyrocketing rents and the commodification of their cities and unpack the fault lines of Spain’s political crisis: the fallout from the Iñigo Errejón scandal, the rise of Labour Minister Yolanda Díaz, and the power struggles between her Sumar platform and the Podemos party.
"Is Spain’s Left Crumbling? Scandals, Power Struggles, and Resistance"—DiEM25
#interview #Spain #HousinCrisis #PoliticalCrisis #MassTourism #scandal #housing #resistance #commodification
HOME UNSETTLED
Settlers are detached from the land and mostly mistake "Little boxes made of ticky tacky" as 'home.' But now
"Climate change is forcing us to rethink our sense of ‘home’ – and what it means to lose it."
Val Plumwood ... "argues that, under capitalism, the idea of personal belonging to a particular place or dwelling is often framed as being more important than many other vital attachments to place, such as connection to land. She uses the term “shadow places” to describe the ecosystems we exclude and exploit – including our forests and waterways – even though they are fundamental to our existence. These places provide essential labour, nourishment and the conditions we need to survive and flourish. For Plumwood, an expanded sense of “home” would encompass the broader ecological context we exist within."
" Indigenous Australian law scholar Irene Watson explains colonisers were already alienated from a sense of connection to land when they came to “Australia”. This disconnection led them to plunder the land, treating it as a commodity rather than a living, complex ecosystem that nurtures and is nurtured by First Nations peoples."
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https://theconversation.com/climate-change-is-forcing-us-to-rethink-our-sense-of-home-and-what-it-means-to-lose-it-247234
Malvina Reynolds - Little boxes on the hillside, Full Version with Lyrics >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUoXtddNPAM
#Country #IndigenousPeoples #care #displacement #land #privatisation #commodification #LandSpeculation #landlordism #rentierisation #SettlerSociety #suburbia #housing #sprawl #homeplace #ClimateBreakdown #values #australia #NativeForests #plunder #ecosystems #biodiversity #ExtinctionCrisis #FossilFuels #extractivism #loss #home
COMMODIFY
To make something into a commodity, frequently at the expense of its intrinsic value
#Capitalism #Commodification #Sacrament #Life #DeathCult #Ecocide #ClimateCrisis #ProfitMotive
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