Ephemeral Value and Disused Commodities

Life of Paper ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Luk
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
The Other ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Social Force ◽  
Prison Industrial Complex ◽  
Capitalist Production ◽  
The One ◽  
Apparent Evidence

Chapter Five clarifies theoretically the overlaps and distinctions between problematizing contemporary mass incarceration in terms of capitalist production, on the one hand, and in terms of social reproduction, on the other. Greater precision in this regard opens out the question rather than assumption of “racial” significance and signification today, specifically with reference to the “prison industrial complex” as a process of genocide—systematic extermination through arrested life and social incapacitation. Chapter Five concludes by examining the manipulation of prison mail in acts of retaliation and torture: wherein punishment does not operate primarily to discipline a labor force but to deaden those who refuse to be neutralized. Considering the letter as sign of living potential in this context, this chapter ultimately views the violence it magnetizes not as the negation but as the most apparent “evidence” of the letter’s social force.

Visualisation and Social Reproduction

1987 ◽  
Vol 35 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 15-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Latour
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
The Other ◽  
Accurate Representation ◽  
Testing Ground ◽  
Religious Paintings ◽  
The One

Religious paintings offer an excellent testing ground to compare the various kinds of displacements or translations. The paper focuses on two such displacements: the repetition of the message of Jesus versus the movement of immutable mobiles allowed by perspective. These two regimes offer completely different definitions of what it is to ‘represent’ something: to the re- presentation of the Presence is opposed the accurate representation of distant places and times. In between 1450 and 1520 these two regimes of displacement first merge, then collide, and later go their separate ways. Religion on the one hand, and Science on the other ignore each other. Going to Heaven, and going through the Sky are two different movements of representation that generate different space-times.

scholarly journals International Law of State Responsibility and COVID-19: An Ideology Critique

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-121
Author(s):  
Robert Knox ◽  
Ntina Tzouvala
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
International Law ◽  
The Other ◽  
State Responsibility ◽  
Ideology Critique ◽  
Capitalist Production ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Us ◽  
The One

Abstract Despite minimal prospects of success, international lawyers spent the first few months of the global pandemic discussing whether the rules of state responsibility could be invoked against states, especially China, for their acts and omissions regarding COVID-19. In this piece, we take these debates seriously, if not necessarily literally. We argue that the unrealistic nature of these debates does not make them irrelevant. Rather, we propose an ideology critique of state responsibility as a legal field. Our approach is two-fold. First, we argue these debates need to be situated within the rise of geopolitical competition between the US and its allies on the one hand and China on the other. In this context, state responsibility is always laid at the feet of one’s opponents. Secondly, we posit that my emphasising the role of states, recourse to state responsibility renders invisible the role of transnational processes of capitalist production and exchange that have profound effects on nature and set the stage for the emergence and spread of infectious diseases. Drawing from the work of the geographer Neil Smith, we argue against the ‘naturalisation’ of disasters performed much of the international legal discourse about COVID-19.

scholarly journals Global Education Industry - Exploring the state of affairs in Austria

Seminar.net ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Theo Hug ◽  
Reinhold Madritsch
Keyword(s):  
Global Education ◽  
Education Technology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Digital Education ◽  
Current State ◽  
Education Industry ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The One

Digitization initiatives in the field of education always correspond with developments in the education industry. In recent years, globally networked development dynamics have emerged that are essentially characterized by an education-industrial complex and are also relevant in Austria. While on the one hand the corona-induced developmental boosts of 'digital' education are welcomed, especially in edtech contexts, on the other hand the international discourses on the problematic role of the global education industry can no longer be ignored. This contribution ties in with these discourses and explores the current state of affairs in Austria. The lack of alternatives to an innovation path, which is often suggested by industry, education policy and education technology, is questioned.

scholarly journals Conceptual guidelines of the mechanism of management of the integrated infrastructure of the agro-industrial complex

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2(48)) ◽  
pp. 233-246
Author(s):  
S. I. Karpin
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Management System ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Basic Mechanism ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Management Mechanism ◽  
Development Management ◽  
Typical Scheme ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
The One

 The article examines the conceptual support of the management mechanism of the integrated infrastructure of the agro-industrial complex. It is proved that the conceptual guidelines of the mechanism of management of the integrated infrastructure of the agro-industrial complex should take into account the principles of the strategy of its sustainable development. It is substantiated that the basic mechanism in the management system of the agro-industrial complex is an interconnected set of tools used by business entities in the process of solving certain tasks under the management's influence on the object, with the planned result. The structural and functional aspect of the management mechanism of the integrated infrastructure of the agro-industrial complex is studied. A typical scheme of the management system in the agro-industrial complex has been developed. The peculiarities and specifics of the mechanism of management of the integrated infrastructure of the agro-industrial complex are clarified. The secondary role of infrastructure in the system of social reproduction, on the one hand, and the need for its modern accelerated development, on the other, determine the main contradictions of the management mechanism of integrated infrastructure of the agro-industrial complex. -industrial policy in the context of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the imbalance of the reproductive structure of the complex, the underdevelopment of major industries and segments of the agro-industrial complex of the country. It is substantiated that development management in the agro-industrial complex covers normative, legal, organizational, structural, functional, production, investment, innovation, economic, social and environmental aspects. The priority of the agro-industrial development management system in the context of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the aggressive policy of the external environment is to ensure sustainable socio-economic growth, increase socio-economic standards and ensure food security.

scholarly journals Co-operation of production is a way to allocate a resource for farming sector development

2020 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 13023
Author(s):  
Galia Kokieva ◽  
Stanislav Fedorov ◽  
Varvara Druzyanova ◽  
Nadezhda Kondakova
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
The Other ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Allocation System ◽  
Horizontal Connections ◽  
Physical Resources ◽  
Farm Unit ◽  
The One ◽  
Resource Allocation System

The agriculture reform, the establishment of a mixed economy in rural areas with various ownership forms on producers’ goods, led to the agro-industrial complex infrastructure reshaping, in particular, the resource allocation system. The organizational framework has changed radically, and the primary physical resources have moved from a centralized allocation system to horizontal connections between consumers and producers. The article describes the relations between farms, on the one hand, and inter-farm firms and associations, on the other. The article deals with the cooperative commercial farm unit relations oriented to the interfarm firms and associationsdevelopment.

scholarly journals The Janus face of austerity politics

Focaal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (90) ◽  
pp. 22-35
Author(s):  
Susana Narotsky
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Pension System ◽  
Public Pension ◽  
The Other ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Financial Sustainability ◽  
Precarious Employment ◽  
Pension Schemes ◽  
The One

How is social reproduction possible in a context of precarious employment and austerity policies that have defunded welfare? The paradox of autonomy and dependence is present in intergenerational relations of support and conflict at various scales. It emerges, on the one hand, in the neoliberal injunction to be individually responsible for one’s own present and future wellbeing, an aspiration that is impossible to fulfill. On the other hand, it is expressed in the increasing recourse by younger active cohorts to the care work and assets of their older kin—in particular retirement pensions and a home. Finally, policy calls to transform the pension system oppose younger and older generations in the accountings of social security financial sustainability and question the fairness of existing public pension schemes.

Due Time

Social Text ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-92
Author(s):  
David A. Maldonado ◽  
Erica R. Meiners
Keyword(s):  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
Tipping Point ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Prison Industrial Complex ◽  
New Markets ◽  
Institutional Violence ◽  
Power And Resistance ◽  
The University

Abstract At this political moment within the university, mass incarceration and its most recognizable constituents, the prisoner and the prison, are at a predictable tipping point: the violence of inclusion. Neoliberal multiculturalism appears capacious enough to hold select representations of mass incarceration in its pursuit of new markets and deft enough to deploy this difference to whitewash other forms of institutional violence. Building from a long genealogy of scholarship and organizing that maps the coconstitutiveness of the university with our prison-industrial complex, this essay makes visible emergent lines and arrangements of power and resistance that inhibit and build abolition.

The Rise and Fall of the Medical Gaze: The Political Economy of Immigrant Medical Inspection in Modern America

2006 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy L. Fairchild
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Scientific Medicine ◽  
Medical Gaze ◽  
European Immigrants ◽  
Politics Of Race ◽  
The One

ArgumentIn this paper I examine the mass medical inspections of immigrants to the United States from the 1890s through the 1920s. I show how, framed as it was not only by nativism and eugenics but also by national industrial imperatives and priorities, scientific medicine served dual purposes. On the one hand, the medical exam was a tool for managing cultural and biological threats to the nation. There were regional variations in medical inspections that reflected the politics of race. On the other hand, the medical exam played an important role in the process of building an unskilled, highly mobile labor force. The industrial demands of the nation provided a rationale for drawing and absorbing millions of European immigrants into the labor force. It was thus a distinct product of the political economy of immigration. It was this second function that characterized the exam for the majority of immigrants entering the nation.

Can You Hear Me Now? Musical Values, Education and ‘Voice’

2013 ◽  
Vol 148 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-144
Author(s):  
Mark Rimmer
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Values Education ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Force ◽  
School Based ◽  
Musical Activity ◽  
Foregoing Discussion ◽  
The One ◽  
Research And Policy

This article addresses a number of questions concerning the use of music by young people. In particular, the argument presented seeks to bring to the fore a set of concerns whose significance is often overlooked or downplayed in debates about young people's engagements with music. These relate to music's capacity to function, on the one hand, in a way that reflects and embodies ethical and ideological commitments of varying kinds and, on the other, as a vehicle of expression through which people might ‘give an account’ of themselves. The article first surveys some of the ways in which scholars have conceived of the relation between forms of musical activity and their broader social force before turning to recent research and policy developments concerned with school-based music education in Britain and considering the ways in which certain forms and dimensions of young people's expressive musical activity are granted legitimacy and state support while others are ignored or marginalised. The final part of the article reflects upon the foregoing discussion and introduces the concepts of ‘voice’ (Couldry, 2010) and ‘recognition’ (Honneth, 1995), to consider how the promotion of some musical values to the detriment of others has important implications for the ways in which young people understand the extent to which their claims – and not just cultural ones – are taken seriously within society.

scholarly journals The Gender Correctional Machine: Institutional Mechanisms that Reinforce a Patriarchal Gender Order in Correctional Facilities

Perceptions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Micaela Robalino
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Mechanism ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Correctional Facilities ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Male Gaze ◽  
Vocational Programs ◽  
Prison Industrial Complex ◽  
Do So

Mass incarceration is a feminist struggle. Not only are women the fastest growing population in correctional facilities in the United States but they also face institutional regulations that aim at "correcting" their gender and sexual "deviance." Correction, within women's correctional facilities, refers to the structural attempt to enforce a gendered, class-based, and racialized order. The mechanism that allows the gender correctional machine to be enacted functions through two branches: correctional industries and library content. This study examines the extent to which regulatory programs, such as limited labor options and libraries, are actually constructed through male-gaze-dominated norms. By looking at the connection between vocational programs and the prison-industrial complex, it is evident that labor-oriented programs not only exploit women but do so in a gendered way. Low-waged, traditionally feminine, and potentially racialized training within the facilities showcase the regulatory mechanism to keep women "were they belong." Furthermore, this study imports the theoretical lens of Laura Mulvey's notion of the male gaze into the area of sociology of law, and seeks to understand how prison libraries enforce patriarchal norms. By looking at denied and permitted library publications in the Philadelphia Department of Prisons, this study shows that the male gaze functions as a normalizing and correcting force in the ways that gender and sexuality are visually portrayed in publications' covers. Thus, the study unveils the regulatory mechanisms of the gender correctional machine, and proposes radical resistance as an alternative to it.

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