Commodification

society in terms of creating identities when in fact malls are not creating identities for everyone. The whole idea of being cool and rebellious is what society looks for because of such restrictions people had in the past. Frank’s argument about commodification of “coolness” goes against counter-culture ideals created for people. This reasoning leads to Frank’s argument not applying to Norton’s argument about choice and identity in consumer culture because there is no choice of identity at…

Patricia McCormick is a journalist and realistic fiction novelist for young adults. In her 2006 novel, Sold, McCormick illustrates the life of the average female child who is sold into human trafficking in East Asia. Her novel confronts many issues that plague areas that are impacted heavily by human trafficking, such as the conditions that allow such atrocities and atmosphere of silence and ignorance that aids in perpetuating the problem. McCormick uses her position as a journalist and writer…

“The early chapters explore the radically incommensurable views taken by slaves and slaveholders of the relation of the slave trade to the broader system of slavery and follow this philosophical difference through the practical contests that defined the history of the slave trade: the efforts of slaveholders to coax or coerce their resistant slaves into the trade, the strategies the traders used to get their slaves to market, the slaves’ efforts to make common cause with their fellow slaves and…

In chapter four of the book “Black Looks” Bell Hooks elaborates about the commodification of black women’s bodies, and how they are both physically and socially constructed entities. Also, she talks about how black women are presented in the media and shows the perspective between the new and old representations of the black female sexuality in difficulty of the American slave trade. Hooks starts the chapter by expressing a situation in which she was faced with racism while accompanied by some…

If there was a statistic that backed up organ legalization as far as how many lives would be saved per year, would it be immoral for a person to be in approval of legalization? Miriam Schulman, the director of Markkula for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, who wrote Kidneys for Sale: A Reconsideration, believes it goes far beyond saving lives. Anthony Gregory, a research fellow and student programs director at the Independent Institute, and the author of Why Legalizing Organ Sales Would…

Disease and degeneracy has taken place of the progression promised by the Enlightenment, there is discomfort present within modern society and its streamlining that has led to the world despair and nihilism. Modern mechanical social structure stands responsible for the capacity depletion of humanity to find meaning, and the increased intellectual sophistication is in fact a manifestation of a vane sense of egoism, bound to erupt violently. What was deemed to become the age of information has…

The first problem with unmediated self-expression is that the self is dialectically composed rather than characterized by wholeness. This inwardness, which is characterized in authenticity is no less contingent than so-called facticities; Hegel characterized it as a negation of the subject.11 The wholeness of the self uncritically presupposes an arbitrary superiority of the subject to the object. This constitutes a form of "objectivism" which fails to relate the subjective and the objective…

they have the freedom to choose how they spend their money, but that is not the reality of our current world. The series of production to consumption no longer focuses on the consumer’s opinions and personal wants, rather it has become a form of commodification in which profit is the main focus. We as the audience have transformed into a commodity, which allows the population to become a…

Commodification of Women and the Oppression of Feminism Forms of literature which centered around postmodernism and the preceding modernism arose mainly during the 20th century. Such forms of literature were there to criticize the classical way of thinking and also critique aspects of what is wrong in the 20th century. “The Great Gatsby” by Scott Fitzgerald, and “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood are respectively modernist and postmodernist forms of literature. They are both novels, which…

Kidneys for Sale Miriam Schulman is the assistant director of Markkula Center for Applied Ethics (hereinafter referred to as “Center”). In 1988, the Center posted the article titled “Kidneys for Sale’’ on its website, highlighting the ethics and morality issues surrounding the continued sale of human kidneys for personal profit, which also led to emails from destitute people who wanted specifics on how they could sell their kidneys, which compelled The Center’s Issues group to…