Rhetoric and Political Economy at the Aesthetic Nexus: A Study of Archbishop Whately

2006 ◽  
pp. 157-164
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The Aesthetic

Feminist Commodity Activism: The New Political Economy of Feminist Protest

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jemima Repo
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Ethical Consumption ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Choice Making ◽  
Street Protest ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Commodity Activism ◽  
Mass Marketing

Abstract This article theorizes the commodification of the recent resurgence of feminist activism through the concept of “feminist commodity activism.” The focus is on the mass popularization of feminist-themed commodities, with T-shirts as a particular focus. First, I discuss how the mass marketing of feminist goods ties in with: (a) commodity feminism, by refetishizing commodities and consumption as empowering for women; (b) neoliberal feminism, through the construction of the feminist as an economic and choice-making subject; and (c) commodity activism, by entangling feminism with the discourses and practices of ethical consumption. Building on these concepts, I propose “feminist commodity activism” as a way to capture and further analyze the current commodification of feminism activism occurring at their intersection. I argue that feminist commodity activism instigates three further shifts: the commodification of the aesthetic experience of feminist street protest; the transfer of feminist activist agency to companies, charities, and entrepreneurs; and the branding of the feminist as a subject of value. Finally, the article considers the challenges that these shifts pose for feminist critique and politics.

scholarly journals The Visual Economy of “Precious Books”

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-114
Author(s):  
Zeina Maasri
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Book Publishing ◽  
The Political ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Capitalist Economy ◽  
Art Object ◽  
The Aesthetic

Abstract Shedding light on the postcolonial Arabic book, this article expands the literary and art historical fields of inquiry by bringing into play the translocal design and visual economy of modern art books. It is focused on the short-lived Silsilat al-Nafa'is (Precious Books series, 1967–70), published in Beirut by Dar an-Nahar and edited by modernist poet Yusuf al-Khal (1917–87). The series engaged prominent Arab artists and foregrounded the aesthetic dimension of the printed Arabic book as a “precious” art object. Situated historically at the threshold of contemporary globalization, this publishing endeavor formed a node connecting transnational modernist art and literary circuits with book publishing and was thus paradigmatic of new forms of visuality of the Arabic book. This materiality was enabled by a network of changes in the visual arts, printing technologies, and the political economy of transnational Arabic publishing in late 1960s Beirut. Relations between these three fields are analyzed through a multifaceted lens, focusing on the book as at once a product of intellectual and artistic practice, a commodity in a capitalist economy of publishing, and a translocal artifact of visual and print culture.

scholarly journals Toward a Carribean cultural political economy

2006 ◽  
Vol 80 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 91-95
Author(s):  
Mimi Sheller
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Caribbean Studies ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Cultural Political Economy ◽  
Bridging Concept ◽  
Revolutionary Ideology ◽  
The Aesthetic

[First paragraph]The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post-Nationalism and Cultural Hybridity. Shalini Puri. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. ix + 300 pp. (Paper US$ 24.95)Miraculous Weapons: Revolutionary Ideology in Caribbean Culture. Joy A.I. Mahabir. New York: Peter Lang, 2003. ix + 167 pp. (Cloth US$ 58.95)The relation between cultural production and political struggle, and between the aesthetic and the material as expressions of social relations, are absolutely central themes within Caribbean studies in all of its disciplinary and interdisciplinary guises. A key question for the field as a whole is what role it might play in generating new approaches to “cultural political economy,” which is emerging as an effective bridging concept at the intersections of anthropology, sociology, economics, political theory, and literary and cultural studies.

Toward a Carribean cultural political economy

2008 ◽  
Vol 80 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 91-95
Author(s):  
Mimi Sheller
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Caribbean Studies ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Cultural Political Economy ◽  
Bridging Concept ◽  
Revolutionary Ideology ◽  
The Aesthetic

[First paragraph]The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post-Nationalism and Cultural Hybridity. Shalini Puri. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. ix + 300 pp. (Paper US$ 24.95)Miraculous Weapons: Revolutionary Ideology in Caribbean Culture. Joy A.I. Mahabir. New York: Peter Lang, 2003. ix + 167 pp. (Cloth US$ 58.95)The relation between cultural production and political struggle, and between the aesthetic and the material as expressions of social relations, are absolutely central themes within Caribbean studies in all of its disciplinary and interdisciplinary guises. A key question for the field as a whole is what role it might play in generating new approaches to “cultural political economy,” which is emerging as an effective bridging concept at the intersections of anthropology, sociology, economics, political theory, and literary and cultural studies.

scholarly journals The Aesthetic Post-Communist Subject and the Differend of Rosia Montana

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Velicu
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Alternative Possibilities ◽  
Capitalist Economy ◽  
Post Communism ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Rosia Montana

By challenging the state and corporate prerogatives to distinguish between “good” and “bad” development, social movements by and in support of inhabitants of Rosia Montana (Transylvania) are subverting prevailing perceptions about Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)’s liberal path of development illustrating its injustice in several ways that will be detailed in this article under the heading “inhibitions of political economy” or Balkanism. The significance of the “Save Rosia Montana” movement for post-communism is that it invites post-communist subjects to reflect and revise their perception about issues such as communism, capitalism and development and to raise questions of global significance about the fragile edifice of justice within the neo-liberal capitalist economy. However, resistance to injustice (and implicitly affirmations of other senses of justice) is an ambiguous discursive practice through which Rosieni make sense as well as partake their sense of Rosia Montana. The movement brings about a public dispute which may be compared with a differend: (in Lyotard’s words), a conflict that cannot be confined to the rules of “cognitive phrases,” of truth and falsehood. This article argues that while post-communist events of “subjectification” are unstable and thus, are to be viewed aesthetically, this same ambiguous multiplication of political subjectivity may facilitate the creation of social spaces for imagining alternative possibilities of development.

Science for All, and Sense for Some: The Late-Romantic Convergence of Aesthetics and Economics in Peacock and De Quincey

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-60
Author(s):  
Brecht de Groote
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Political Order ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Romantic Era ◽  
Aesthetic Ideology ◽  
The Aesthetic

This article studies two representative late-Romantic texts in which discourses of aesthetics and economics are opposed and ultimately brought into convergence, arguing that these texts aim to document and to contribute to widespread contemporary attempts to ensure the continued viability of Romantic-era social hierarchies by reinforcing the aesthetic ideology supporting the commercial state. The article provides a brief overview of the fractured state of public discourse in post-Waterloo Britain, demonstrating that the volatile political situation in the 1820s and 1830s rendered the growing divide between aesthetics and economics particularly problematic in that it obscured their interdependence in safeguarding the established political order. The argument then turns to Thomas Love Peacock's Crotchet Castle (1831), which allegorises the debates between literature and political economy at the time, as well as the ultimately unsuccessful attempts to bridge their disconnection. In reading Thomas De Quincey's ‘Ricardo Made Easy’ (1843) and The Logic of Political Economy (1844) through Peacock, the originality of De Quincey's attempted aestheticisation of economics fully appears, as do the reasons for his eventual failure.

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