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“earl gammon”

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  • Clickbait capitalism

    Economies of desire in the twenty-first century

    Edited by Amin Samman, Earl Gammon ...
    The notion of ‘clickbait’ speaks to the intersection of money, technology, and desire, suggesting a cunning ruse to profit from unsavoury inclinations of one kind or another. Clickbait capitalism pursues the idea that the entire contemporary economy is just such a ruse; an elaborate exercise in psychological capture and release.Pushing beyond rationalist accounts of economic life, this volume puts ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

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    Framework and Principles

    by Mark Granovetter ...
    Society and Economy—a work of exceptional ambition by the founder of modern economic sociology—is the first full account of Mark Granovetter’s ideas about the diverse ways in which society and economy are intertwined.The economy is not a sphere separate from other human activities, Granovetter writes. It is deeply embedded in social relations and subject to the same emotions, ideas, and ... Read more

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  • Speculative Communities

    Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World

    by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou ...
    Speculative Communities investigates the financial world’s influence on the social imagination, unraveling its radical effects on our personal and political lives.In Speculative Communities, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou examines the ways that speculation has moved beyond financial markets to shape fundamental aspects of our social and political lives. As ordinary people make exceptional decisions, ... Read more

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  • Pure Excess

    Capitalism and the Commodity

    by Todd McGowan ...
    Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess. He argues that the promise of more—more wealth, more enjoyment, more opportunity, without requiring any sacrifice—is the essence of capitalism. Previous socioeconomic systems set up some form of the social good as their focus. Capitalism, however, represents a revolutionary ... Read more

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  • Digital Labor

    The Internet as Playground and Factory

    Edited by Trebor Scholz ...
    Digital Labor calls on the reader to examine the shifting sites of labor markets to the Internet through the lens of their political, technological, and historical making. Internet users currently create most of the content that makes up the web: they search, link, tweet, and post updates—leaving their "deep" data exposed. Meanwhile, governments listen in, and big corporations track, analyze, and ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Creating Better Futures

    Scenario Planning as a Tool for a Better Tomorrow

    by James A. Ogilvy ...
    As a founder and managing director of Global Business Network, James Ogilvy helped develop the technique of scenario planning, which has become an integral part of strategic thinking in both business and government. Now Ogilvy shows how we can use this cutting-edge method for social change in our own neighborhoods. In Creating Better Futures, Ogilvy presents a profound new vision of how the world ... Read more

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  • Speculate This!

    by uncertain commons ...
    Speculate This! is a concise, provocative manifesto advocating practices of "affirmative speculation" over and against contemporary forms of speculation that quantify and contain risk to generate financial profit for a privileged few. This latter mode of speculation is predatory and familiar, its fallout evident in ongoing environmental degradation, in restrictive legal claims on natural resources ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Capitalism and Nothingness

    Critical Theory in Unwanted Times

    by Peter Fleming ...
    Drawing on Marcuse, Adorno, Arendt and a variety of other critical social philosophers, this book introduces us to a familiar character amid the wreckage of the post-pandemic economy: no-dimensional man. A cousin of Marcuse's one-dimensional man, they are a figure so compressed by the unending present of capitalism that they have ceased to be genuinely present in any ethical or political sense ... Read more

    $28.49 CAD

  • Writing Academic Texts Differently

    Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing

    Edited by Nina Lykke ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality
    This edited volume combines cutting-edge research on feminist and intersectional writing methodologies with explorations of links between academic and creative writing practices. Contributors discuss what it means for academic writing processes to explore intersectional in-between spaces between monolithic identity markers and power differentials such as gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality ... Read more

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  • The Critical Global Educator

    Global citizenship education as sustainable development

    by Maureen Ellis ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
    An acknowledged challenge for humanitarian democratic education is its perceived lack of philosophical and theoretical foundation, often resulting in peripheral academic status and reduced prestige. A rich philosophical and theoretical tradition does however exist. This book synthesises crucial concepts from Critical Realism, Critical Social Theory, Critical Discourse Studies, neuro-, psycho-, ... Read more

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  • The Culture of Markets

    by Frederick F. Wherry ...
    Series series Cultural Sociology
    What are the logics of pricing, and why do some pricing schemes defy standard economic expectations? What explains the different labor market outcomes of people who receive the same training from the same place and who have similar grades? Why do national governments issue statements about the country’s history and personality when developing economic policies, and why are struggles over the ... Read more

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  • Exchanging Autonomy

    Inner Motivations as Resources for Tackling the Crises of Our Times

    by Marco Senatore ...
    This book has already been published in Italy by the university press Aracne (http://www.aracneeditrice.it/aracneweb/index.php/pubblicazione.html?item=9788854857957). Its twofold purpose is to define some dimensions of individual autonomy (in particular, existential, functional and relational autonomy) and promote their dissemination within society, mainly through the introduction of some legal ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD