Emotions as Commodities Refraction of Light geographical and political change

geographical and political change

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The volume goes beyond the implication that culture determines form to develop an approach that integrates meaning and practice

Emotions as Commodities Refraction of Light geographical and political changeCapitalism has made rationality into a pervasive feature of human action and yet, far from heralding a loss of emotionality, capitalist culture has been accompanied with an unprecedented intensification of emotional life. This raises the question: how could we have become increasingly rationalized and more intensely emotional? Emotions as Commodities offers a simple hypothesis: that consumer acts and emotional life have become closely and inseparably