While not a commodity in itself, sex can be commodified.
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But just because they aren't commodified doesn't mean they aren't real.
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It's a stereotypical depiction of Hawaiian culture, commodified into party decor.
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The show has been commodified; it's fast food, not French press.
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He commodified his charm and tried to outrun his Black identity.
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Like most things on the internet, it too has become commodified.
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And if there is an individual, it gets commodified so quickly.
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Feminism isn't something to be commodified or co-opted, particularly by fashion.
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Our culture has been commodified as the barometer of what coolness is.
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Do you feel like queer culture has become commodified by the mainstream?
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Social change within the hockey community is diminished yet commodified into sloganeering.
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How did it feel to have your personality morphed and commodified like that?
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IA: These struggles are commodified and fetishized, fitting seamlessly into Western orientalist narratives.
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It is rising here because it has not yet, like football, been commodified.
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Devils have set up shop in the firmament, trading in a commodified soul.
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"It's no accident that our churches became commodified," he said to supportive cheers.
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Each asks what we are afraid of, and how that fear is commodified.
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At least in its contemporary, commodified iteration, self-care isn't a solution; it's exhausting.
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The Boys is set in an America where superheroes are heavily commodified and merchandised.
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Fast forward four years, and we're deep in the throes of commodified female empowerment.
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Like many things in America, the midday meal has been epically commodified and fetishized.
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At the end of the 20th century, though, what had been commodified started to dematerialise.
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His primary influences are Minimalism and de Stijl, updated for the post-Warhol commodified culture.
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In conclusion, what I learned from Clearly Canadian was a lesson in nostalgia being commodified.
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When did you first see turmeric being commodified as a luxury product in the States?
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It also brings into focus just how well brands have commodified our values and identities.
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I am a safe version of transness, corporatized and commodified, fit for mass-market consumption.
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I ask her what she thinks about the criticisms of how street style has become commodified.
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But mass-market books, photographs and phonographs had, by the mid-20th century, largely commodified culture.
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Normcore itself began as an underground reactive idea to labels, but then it got commodified, too.
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We've seen decisions to stop doing original reporting and start producing commodified slideshows ricochet through the industry.
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A white reader of these poems has to think hard about his own commodified analysis of them.
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Social media encourages connections, but its highly public and slickly commodified landscape resists moments of real intimacy.
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Many products are freely commodified and sold for use by outsiders, benefiting both parties to the exchange.
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When gun violence becomes commodified as content by the media, we consume it rather than experience it.
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That's because those pastimes can be customized by each individual (and commodified) with apps, workshops, and classes.
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But Thoreau, born 200 years ago on Wednesday, foresaw the ravaged futures of these increasingly commodified rivers.
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In order to make sex positivity proliferate in our culture, it has been commodified for ease and popularity.
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I don't want to be this commodified thing, saying things like, this is how you become a witch.
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We live in a society where everything is commodified, including healing modalities and the concept of self-love.
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It's like, obviously my life and my hard work are worth more than 99¢, but I feel commodified.
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And so many laws concerning immigration seem to suggest that human rights are privileges and can be commodified.
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The trend of commodified hippiedom is most obvious, though, when it comes to things we put inside ourselves.
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Airbnb's foray into homebuilding suggests a future in which everything is commodified and nothing, even the home, is private.
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Of course, the Kercher family has lost their daughter and they've seen this story commodified and turned into entertainment.
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It's an exploration of how bodies are visualized and commodified, both in the art world and in popular culture.
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Feminism is neoliberal, corporate, and commodified now, and this idea presents us with a whole new host of issues.
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A lot of times, black people were extremely cool, and that's how we've been commodified in TV and film.
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"Detoxing" has become popular among wellness gurus for supposed health benefits, commodified and stripped of religious ritual and ceremony.
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Finding out the history of different vegetables and recipes shows you how they have been commodified, Ms. Quichiz said.
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History has shown us how elements of marginalized culture are extracted, appropriated, and commodified, often without context by dominant groups.
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Like Jacunski, Brown's installation addresses the social implications of marginalized spaces — how they are both created and, more quickly, commodified.
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It's a kind of implicit take-down of the preciousness of the white cube, the polished and commodified art world.
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A place where Black culture is praised, commodified, and appropriated, while Black people are criticized, vilified, and hunted for sport.
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The free offering, the literal meaning of gratuity, is supposed to exist outside the commodified services available in modern economies.
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It's ironic too because white Americans have long consumed, commodified, and cannibalized New Orleans culture particularly, and Southern culture generally.
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I have to believe the pictures are resistant in some way to commodified maleness, that fragility and masculinity can coexist.
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Everywhere in these subcultures Maher finds women confined and commodified, desperately trying, and rarely succeeding, to govern their own lives.
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This leaves us with one more form of commodified spirituality that is likely, like yoga, to alienate people of color.
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"Images are produced, commodified, made public and circulated on an unprecedented scale," sociologist Martin Hand writes in his book Ubiquitous Photography.
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"Your strategy will either be commodified into an ETF or you will find some way to really differentiate yourself," he says.
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But for the most part, automaking in the 21st century outside bespoke operations for expensive exotic cars is a commodified process.
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The app is aesthetically pleasing without veering into the overly trendy, a quality I appreciate in the age of commodified wellness.
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Over the past few years, synthetic ouds have become trendy notes in commercial perfumes, as synthetic sadness can also be commodified.
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People tend to dress a lot alike more — an idea gets commodified so exponentially because there's so much access to information.
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The only thing returning is the Nokia logo slapped on a bunch of commodified rectangles as part of a brand licensing strategy.
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Astrology is a complex system that takes time to learn, but it's become so popular and commodified that it's often over-simplified.
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"Women are commodified just as much as the cars are—they're there to be looked at in the same way," Sasha said.
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Her work, which spans painting, sculpture, installation, and performance, aims to challenge gender representation and notions of the exotic and commodified being.
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The district is fertile ground for distilling Miami's creative muscle; galleries, fleeing over-commodified zones like Wynwood and Midtown, are popping up.
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At a time when art is relentlessly commercialized and commodified, Robin McKenna's "Gift" provides a gentle and welcome reminder of other values.
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The giant-teddy-bear trappings of Valentine's Day may be universal symbols of commodified emotion, but February 14th is no Hallmark holiday.
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This is perhaps less true today, in an age when nightclub culture is heavily monitored and policed, or maybe worse, heavily commodified.
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Are you with Sanders and the left, and against insurance companies, squishy moderates, commodified health care, and a politics of preemptive compromise?
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What such an accord would mean for graffiti, an art form that has increasingly been defanged, coopted, and commodified, remains an open question.
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When you put the image of Che or Marx on a T-shirt, revolution, like sex, becomes commodified, a thrill to be sold.
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While yoga has been associated with wisdom for more than 5,000 years, in American society, it has often been co-opted and commodified.
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Veteran musician Onyx Ashanti's performance prompted larger questions of how personal, cultural works hold value in commodified spaces of leisure, excess and consumption.
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The same kind of aggressive repurposing of commodified sexuality runs through the show's nearly two dozen other pieces, if not always so explicitly.
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They commodified their identities and experiences by offering their audience an authentic (or at least authentic-seeming) peek at their often enviable existence.
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Others on the left were indignant about the ways protest and resistance were being commodified and used to build a behemoth company's brand.
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On Motherboard: How Millennials and Their Content Farms Commodified Political Correctness Well, all I'm doing is quoting you, but I understand what you're saying.
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Dee says Bickerton was interested in how artists and their works were becoming commodified, competing against big brands by the end of the 80s.
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All of which is just another way of saying that SoCo is the result of those who've perfectly commodified the "Keep Austin Weird" aesthetic.
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While self-care has become overly commodified in America, customers are still attracted to purchasing things that are predicated on making them feel better.
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But when these practices are commodified, marketed, and suddenly become shiny and expensive—is that still self-care, or has it morphed into something else?
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What if that meme is then commodified and marketed by other people, with no consideration of or concern for how you might feel about it?
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"I knew what it was like to stand in front of a camera, and I knew what it was like to be commodified," Egan said.
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Progressiveness and diversity themselves have become commodified as yet another fad that the web of global media can exploit while patting itself on the back.
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Or does it risk consigning him to the same category of commodified celebrity as Elvis or Dolly Parton, whose homes have become popular tourist destinations?
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On the final leg of our dystopian internet tour, babies failed, celebs were subdued, drag queens were commodified and girlfriends were terrorized via marriage proposal.
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He'd told me that one of the reasons he wanted to branch out from art is that he views that world as becoming too commodified.
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Asking you to pay attention because in a few years what happens at CES will be commodified and change our gadgets is a tough sell.
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I didn't want to pay an admission fee to see women's bodies commodified, and then throw dollar bills at them, which felt even more demoralizing.
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Now the internet and the data that drives it has gathered, stored, and commodified everything we do, everything we buy, everyone we are connected to.
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But M.I.A.'s legacy as someone who saw that international music could be appreciated in its contemporary, danceable forms rather than as commodified exoticism still stands.
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Godfried Donkor often explores the shared history of Europe and Africa by looking at how people have been commodified as a result of the colonial experience.
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Much the same can be said of the Blade Runner universe, in which female robots and replicants are largely commodified for the sexual enjoyment of men.
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What perhaps even more insidious is that art itself is starting to become commodified to the point that people won't be able to tell the difference.
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I prefer that than an experience where I can decide how I want to relate to the thing that's totally foreign to me through commodified trips.
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Oftentimes, our art is commodified and sold back to us through the media, and we are continuously made invisible as our art is also culturally appropriated.
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What ties these two games together is this long history of postmodern thought within anime, and their intentions to turn its commodified cuteness on the player.
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In a 2013 talk you gave for the Faith Angle Forum on forgiveness, you discuss the way repentance and forgiveness have been commodified by PR experts.
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It's even better when you're the person doing the demolishing (think: popping bubble wrap), so it was only a matter of time before someone commodified this feeling.
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Her work is mutually informed by relational aesthetics and institutional critique, asking viewers to consider the role of the body in the commodified space of the gallery.
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For me, the really important part though is that the central concept of the show is how terrifying it is to think of the body as commodified.
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This spring, Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale clattered into public consciousness like thunder, asking us to imagine a horrifying future where women's bodies are commodified by the state.
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It doesn't make a clear or simple moral judgement but instead forces us to contemplate just what sort of complex experiences we've commodified for our own entertainment.
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In the film, his work is analyzed by top art critics, commodified by big money art buyers, and personalized by some of the women in his life.
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But once sexuality became commodified, there came a point at which it was no longer of use, proving that race and sex are built on shaky foundations.
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It is a selling moment, confirming that victimization can be ignored and commodified, that the vulnerable — long after they have suffered and died — can still be prey.
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The flow of information is controlled yet again by a few gatekeepers, and our lives online—everything we create and how we consume it—have been commodified.
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Modern practice has been commodified, commercialized, and secularized, and has been as controversial among Hindu scholars of religion as it has among members of the Christian right.
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With housing commodified, the perpetrators of racial capitalism have the perfect scenario to extract value from poor people and people of color while further dispossessing them of power.
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Similarly, Richardson ensures the Sad Girls Club pays close attention to their language so it speaks to something beyond comforting, commodified buzzwords like "self-care" and "self-love."
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The ongoing series takes a look at how racist ideas are commodified, disseminated, and how they are intentionally weaponized to achieve particular goals and influence ways of thinking.
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We haven't seen any of these surface the next Walkman or PlayStation yet, but they represent a concerted effort from Sony to break away from commodified consumer electronics.
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Like "Large Vase of Flowers" (1991), "Bouquet of Tulips" (2016) is just a straining example of his signature brain-dead brand aesthetic of vacuous, hyper-commodified financial empowerment.
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"This is an area of contemporary art that has been completely overlooked by the commercial world because it's been so non-commodified," said Nora Atkinson, the Renwick's curator.
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Written by Nancy Dowd, whose brother played this level of hockey at the time, the film is a satire of commodified hockey culture and its spectacle of violence.
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This mindset is the natural endpoint of America's hustle culture—the idea that every nanosecond of our lives must be commodified and pointed toward profit and self-improvement.
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"It's sort of impossible in America for anything to enter the culture and then not be commodified, you know?" show creator Michael Schur told the New York Times.
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Today, several wines made in the Médoc are so expensive, and so thoroughly commodified, they should be thought of less as beverages and more as complex financial instruments.
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If you yearn for the days when punk, the genre and the lifestyle, hadn't yet been commodified and commercialized, this limited documentary series is right up your alley.
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Yet while that image of the modern festival is so commonplace it's become easy to sketch, it's also only one part of what's become a much larger, commodified whole.
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For some punters being a patron is a form of commodified dissent, argues Riley (who goes by one name only), one of the hosts of Trashfuture, a leftist podcast.
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Some of that criticism has been around his work with kitsch, commodified objects; making a phone case seems to play into that in basically every good and bad sense.
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I kind of cringe when I hear the term self-care, for lots of reasons: the way that it's been commodified, the way it's a form of compulsory action.
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It doesn't say much about the subject itself other than that it's a shame art is so heavily commodified, as if this is somehow a new phenomenon or observation.
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At a time when art is as commodified as oil, a few collectors have chosen to buy works that are messy, perishable and threaten to take over their lives.
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We grew up listening to bands like Pink Floyd to The Sex Pistols to Black Sabbath to Captain Beefheart, so we didn't generally embrace bands that let themselves be commodified.
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Both Looking Glass and its Hatter reimagine the dangerousness of Lewis Carroll's original character, or at least the author's concept of madness, in a way that can be safely commodified.
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Through three albums, including her new "99¢" (Atlantic), Santigold has sung — with a bright yelp and a wealth of grooves — about stubborn individuality and artistic fulfillment in a commodified world.
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It's tempting to give the show the benefit of the doubt in scenes like Rachel and Coleman debating Darius's injury, which echoed ways black people are commodified in the media.
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You can listen to this article right here: Here, you will find hardly a trace of the actual human beings whose experiences have been commodified over the last quarter century.
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In 2007, 50 Cent and Kanye West commodified the concurrent releases of their respective albums Curtis and Graduation, with Kanye pushing his date back to generate press over the competition.
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We desperately require a recommitment and reconnection to the human dignity each of us is robbed of when every aspect of our life is commodified and measured by market values.
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But it's also commodified poignancy: an encapsulated micronarrative, like Ernest Hemingway's "For sale: baby shoes, never worn," which relies on the bathroom's universal familiarity to deliver a quick dose of pathos.
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The piece also recalls Heap of Birds's earlier "Telling Many Magpies, Telling Black Wolf, Telling Hachivi" piece, by showing ways in which Native culture gets commodified to attract non-Native customers.
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If, at first glance, 32 seems trite, that's understandable–mental illness is regularly commodified as entertaining wackiness, and expressions of vulnerability are treated as an artistic ends rather than a mean.
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Of course, it's important to care about and engage with the problems we can from climate change, a weakened welfare state, and a world in which everything is commodified and privatised.
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Using cake as a sugary medium, Heimark creates dessert sculptures of these horrifying historical events as a statement about how they're commodified into media fodder and consumable forms of popular entertainment.
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The representation of gay was so commodified, so made into a lifestyle, very clean, so commercial … Porn was still stuck in the AIDS crisis, there wasn't anything spontaneous about gay porn.
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We've internalized it in the most basic ways, and we've commodified sex in the most purely profitable ways and done so as only Americans can when it comes to a commodity.
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Bank commodifies the image of a commodified woman who fought against the commodification of people There's just one problem with all the outrage -- Harriet's NOT shouting out King T'Challa on the card.
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Instead of looking at water from a human rights perspective they have simply commodified water, and laid the framework for how big corporations can profit from the misery of poor Lagos residents.
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Incumbents like Samsung can't afford to increase the purchase price on a commodified item because consumers would just buy their large glowing rectangles from lower-priced competitors like HiSense, Seiki, or TCL.
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Of course even this has been commodified, and even with the extreme hostility towards the audience, a yandere character can still be seen as appealing and even desirable, given a sympathetic story.
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They are not innocent, but a more illuminating peek into the corrosive power that can arise within commodified Christianity comes via an all-company sales meeting which the foursome attend in Chicago.
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Credit bureaus hold an enormous amount of information on Americans, information that has become privatized and commodified in ways that we could only dream about in dystopian fiction just a few decades ago.
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Of course, many other groups – Native Americans, Asian Americans, Mexican Americans, poor whites, Jews, women and gay people, to name a few – have also been, and continue to be, targets of commodified hate.
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And Barry himself can never quite see that he is not a blameless victim, and that even his own self-pity is a luxury, a commodified good on par with his expensive watches.
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As we wait to see who collects on the winning ticket purchased in South Carolina, it's a perfect time to investigate the mathematical and psychological appeal of turning your money into commodified chance.
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Any interaction is almost immediately commodified as a painstakingly-manicured photo op, shot in a manner that minimizes the incongruity between Zuckerberg's indoor kid complexion and the backdrop of some blighted Rust Belt town.
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Of all the automakers on the planet, Lamborghini may have the least to gain from a world in which robots do all the driving, where ground transportation becomes more commodified good than personalized experience.
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Like all other aspects of life (whether Christmas, Valentines Day, or love itself), capitalism has commodified death and its vulnerable grievers — and it's an injustice that is nowhere to be found in public discourse.
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It's an uncomfortable feeling that reflects much of the conversation regarding cultural production of Black communities repackaged and commodified from non-Black ones, much like the career trajectory of recent Universal signee Lucas DiPascale.
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London producer Roly Porter remembers the days before dubstep was a dirty word, before it became so stilted and commodified that it sent Skrillex himself into the toned arms of pop prince Justin Bieber.
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Has it been a fear of black voices like so many other magazines named above, which would not have run an issue like this until the idea of black liberation has been thoroughly commodified?
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An eternally exposed nerve who refuses to present as fully healed or whole, even in the era of self-care and commodified feminism, Ms. Marshall has always sounded as if she'd seen some things.
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To get there, Airbnb and Uber basically commodified trust, largely by allowing users to review each other as a form of accountability and, until now, Australian online jobs marketplace Airtasker followed a similar route.
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In a similar way to how "feminism"—in its vaguest terms—has been hijacked as a way of selling anything from period pants to singer-songwriters, mental health is rapidly becoming a commodified issue.
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According to Columbia University psychiatrist Kelli Harding, one of the most important keys to health and wellness has nothing to do with minimalism, snake oil gummies, or appropriative, commodified versions of meaningful Indigenous American practices.
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It's just one among many, many instances of both Ginsburg and the broader idea of women's equality being cutely commodified, but it was a reminder of how low my tolerance for that commodification has become.
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It's amazing how steadily Westworld builds this sequence to the ultimate horror of learning that your life has been commodified to sell something, that a moment of raw intimacy has become part of a commercial.
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Birds of Prey's uncomplicated feminist message made me think about a 2018 BuzzFeed piece from film critic Alison Willmore, in which she wrote about her qualms with the way girl power is commodified in Hollywood.
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Absence, or maybe, closer, longueurs — the long, boring passages in a narrative as applied to quotidian existence — is a sentimental notion, or it has become commodified, in the sense that it is something to be consumed.
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After all, when it's not being politicized, commodified, or appropriated, art can revert to its fundamental purpose: to help us make sense or find hope as we struggle through life on this bewildering and embattled planet.
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Even his spiritual attributes, like his artistic talent, are explicitly broken down into objectified physical parts; his talent as a photographer becomes reduced to his artistic "eyes," which are commodified just like the rest of him.
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This narrative, transplanted into a brown neighborhood in a city that is defined, predicated on, and commodified around Indigenous identity, can be read as tone-deaf at a moment in this country when decolonial narratives are prominent.
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Or, you can take one of the various plantation tours that exist across the United States and the Caribbean, which have ironically commodified the sites on which enslaved Black people were brutalized, raped, and murdered as property.
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The hardware side of the drone business would be quickly commodified, he told me, and the real value would be collected by the software makers who built platforms that were used by a wide range of manufacturers.
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Lien and Camacho seem to be drawing a parallel between e-commerce families and the lot of contemporary artists — both being commodified by a capitalist exchange system which alienates them from genuine connections and more rewarding relationships.
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Similarly troubling are the T-shirts I've seen throughout the city this week that have Bernie's face superimposed on the iconic image of Che Guevara that has been commodified by stores like the Gap over the years.
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But it's hard to shake the grip of that commodified version of the South, laden with heirloom quilts and dripping with barbecue sauce, when everyone — even Reese Witherspoon — is telling you that that's the way to live.
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In the era before the commodified wellness movement, this kind of drink would have been tucked into the dimmest refrigerated corner of the spookiest health-food store, not in high demand at $29.99 for a six pack.
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Scheppe suggests that all the fake Venetian tchotchkes tourists scoop up today (often sold by Chinese immigrants to Chinese visitors) may be seen as symbols of what the once-powerful city has become — "a commodified image" of itself.
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Cultural appropriation is a serious issue, and I'm not naïve enough to believe that Kylie Jenner hasn't been aware of the many ways she has appropriated and commodified Black culture both in the past, and apparently still today.
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What might be practical steps to make sure that black people—who contribute so much to pop culture, vernacular language and an easily commodified sense of 'cool'—get to take charge of their own narrative in British public life?
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"On the other hand, the focus shifts from the artistic value to monetary value of the work, and for most artists the art is an extension of the artist, so you yourself start to feel commodified," Mr. Abosch said.
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Renting out an extra room to tourists through Airbnb is like dipping your toes into the scary waters of the sharing economy; buying a home that's specifically designed to be split up and commodified is more akin to diving in headfirst.
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"The Warped Tour is really interesting because it jumped early on the idea that crowds could be commodified," says Gina Arnold, a former rock journalist and the author of Half a Million Strong: Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella.
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As the B2B becomes an increasingly commodified trope in club culture—utilized broadly to pad out festival lineups with as many names as possible—Beautiful Swimmers also showcase the transformative power collaborative selectors can have when they get it right.
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He'd like us to enjoy "a political life that would be capable of providing a strong, effective figure of disinterested discipline to counter the law of commodified representation and suicidal adolescent inertia," but that desire can take egalitarian and inegalitarian forms.
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When he began writing "The Longing for Less," he was put off by how minimalism had become commodified — a smug cure-all that countered late-capitalist malaise with self-help books by Marie Kondo and seasonal pilgrimages to The Container Store.
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But in a moment when self-care has become commodified and trendy, weaved into internet influencers' personal brands, Ramos says that Girls' Night In is here to help women get to exactly what it is that helps you feel better as an individual.
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But in an unfortunate case of internet irony, Dzodan, who says she hasn't really considered herself a "public" figure in years, has seen her famous quote commodified and sold across the web — by people who never offered her a cut of their profits.
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She talks about how feminism as a movement has been commodified, and things like marketplace feminism — using feminism to sell products — and celebrity feminism, which is celebrities calling themselves feminists and immediately being seen as feminist icons but not necessarily being authorities.
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Rubenhold did an enormous amount of research, but ultimately the book's impact comes from the very simple but powerful act of restoring these five women's humanity — an admirable feat considering that their violent murders have been commodified and romanticized for over a century.
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Instead, through essays on topics as varied as bird watching or Bartleby the Scrivener, Odell argues for a different expenditure of our limited attention, away from the corporations that have commodified our lives online, extracting dollars from our every click and scroll.
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In the last century and a half, as the West has commodified the dance, its reputation has become hypersexualized—a fact which endlessly frustrates both those who have studied raqs al-sharqi and those who consider it an integral and beautiful part of their culture.
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With the United Nations estimating that more than two-thirds of humanity will live in urban areas by 2050, Bentley expects noise from things such as traffic, construction and mobile phones will only increase - which could lead to peace and quiet becoming a commodified luxury.
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In this commodified atmosphere, it was difficult to process the appearance of real activists on the red carpet: The #MeToo founder Tarana Burke came as Michelle Williams's date, while Meryl Streep brought along Ai-jen Poo, executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance.
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GIRLS If you live in a body that isn't eligible for expansive and non-commodified fun and joy and adventure, and/or, if the version of fun and joy and adventure that you most desire isn't available to you, creativity is a way to just take it.
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But maybe it's time we indulge in a bit of self-care—a term I feel iffy about because, like any good left-leaner, I hate it when valid concepts are commodified to the point where "I napped today" becomes a popular t-shirt or mug slogan.
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But somewhere along the line it all got a little reductive, and the idea of festival dressing slowly became commodified, with just about every fast fashion brand offering up its own ready-made selection of what you should be wearing to watch Kanye West in a field.
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The way this retrospective tells it, the 2727s represented a transformational period in American independent cinema — a time when indies served as a counterbalance to the mallification of Hollywood movies and before they started to become commodified by organizations such as the Sundance Film Festival (now underway).
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The moon—Given the Moon's historical associations with some kind of divine feminine, it's no wonder that the modern wellness industry—which often targets female consumers whose experiences with mainstream medicine have been alienating and unsatisfying—commodified the shit out of li'l baby roundie in the 2010s.
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Rather, the shift currently occurring in the world is a rejection of the status-quo—a rebuttal of a complacent contemporary culture that has for too long commodified the radical, liberal ideas of the 1960s and 1970s in order to sell records, and phones, and whatever else.
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While these claims are wildly overstated, as documented in a book I co-edited, Commodified and Criminalized: New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports (Perspectives on a Multiracial America), they are based on a kernel of truth about the opportunities athletics can provide for cross-racial interaction.
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As she wrote in a recent piece for VICE Magazine, Shayla knows that self-care can be necessary in our increasingly stressful world, but she argues that when it's commodified—and, especially, when it stands in as a replacement for comprehensive mental health care—we've got a problem.
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When I thought about it later, it occurred to me that what I might have been reacting to was the hard sell that Denver's ganja-preneurial class was putting on these poor, weed-repressed out-of-towners, the way in which their stifled desire for pot was being commodified.
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The video directed by LOUIEKNOWS does a perfect job summarizing wifi's vision, blending trippy visuals with old-school graphics that have been commodified by the SoundCloud generation in a certainly ironic light, but imbued with enough gravitas to give cheesy PhotoShop backgrounds and exaggerated lightning strikes a new definition.
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Marketplace feminism, coined by feminist writer and co-founder of Bitch Media Andi Zeisler in We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement, published last year, has turned a movement into a brand, something to be bought, sold, and commodified.
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" That view was at odds with the assessment of another Guardian reviewer, who wrote in July 2015 that Mr. Rieu's performance in one film was "the very acme of commodified classical music, and as poor old Strauss waltzes and polkas and other unsuspecting masterpieces were turned into saccharine fodder.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads From elaborate department store window displays advertising fashion and beauty products, to red light districts where female bodies themselves are commodified, the trope of the "woman in the window" reflects the deep-seated objectification of women that crosses cultural and geographic boundaries.
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To that end, the third episode's storyline about an older, obese man with a small penis who enjoys having women berate and humiliate him via Skype in exchange for money (and his own pleasure) moves us toward a broader understanding of how nudity is commodified once it's filmed and publicized.
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What may have felt aspirational in the late-20th century now feels all too commodified, but those defiant looks (not to mention those hilariously engorged penises) still carry within them a promise of total unencumbered freedom—not merely in a legal sense, but in a larger, cultural sense as well.
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Outfitting its cars with its own entertainment services could help the electric car maker earn money in a future where the auto industry becomes "a highly regulated and commodified utility, where the transport service itself is possibly a money loser, " wrote Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas, in a note published Tuesday.
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My Drunk Kitchen is a show that would never get off the ground in 18: a girl using a cruddy webcam to film herself getting drunk and stuffing croutons into a Cornish game hen is the type of friendly, intimate weirdness that is now commodified and prepackaged by web video production teams.
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Two heart-wrenching photographs of Hollywood hustlers by Philip-Lorca diCorcia turn the act of posing, which Mr. diCorcia paid for at his subjects' going rates, into a commodified sexual performance of its own, and six crumpled bronze iterations of Elizabeth Stephens's "The Porn Star/Academic Bronzed Panty Collection" are extravagantly discomfiting.
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Sure, she's the intoxicating dancer, but she's also the woman cast in the shadow, last in line, of G.O.O.D.'s hip-hop heavyweights; she's known what she's up against, the expectation to prove herself as more than a commodified star of someone else's art, and against the assorted political and cultural elephants in the room.
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Think, for example, of the "vanlife" phenomenon, an aestheticized version of sticking it to the Man by being tied not to a condo or a 9-to-5 job but to a van and Mother Nature, a commodified desire largely propelled by brands sponsoring attractively rugged couples to "live the dream" (while using their products).
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Giovanna Olmos was compelling as ever, with another successful How to Sell a Digital Painting performance (Olmos actually sold a work for nearly $30 during her time slot), and Sara Grace Powell treated audiences to a nightmarish vision of a completely-commodified future via her Hello Kitty-meets-Johnny Mnemonic character, imposter art consultant Kelsea Wollffllotterr.
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But if one searches for a theme to unite the paintings on display, one definitely emerges: This is about the power of wealth to conquer geography, to visit beautiful places, stand over and above them in a masterful way, and return with visual souvenirs that can be commodified and exchanged long after the tourist is safely home and abed.
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Deller's approach to depicting the figure is the polar opposite of that of many of his contemporaries, who have famously embraced the free-market economics of the art-fair system by making such works as Damian Hirst's hyper-commodified diamond-encrusted skull (For the Love of God, 2007) and Mark Quinn's life-sized 18k-gold statue of supermodel Kate Moss (Sphinx, 2006).
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They also argue that this would lead to a much better situation for quality online publishers because it would make it harder for their high-value audiences to be arbitraged and commodified by privacy-hostile tracking technologies which — as it stands — trail internet users everywhere they go — albeit they freely concede that purveyors of low-quality clickbait might fare less well.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In Lex Brown's book My Wet Hot Drone Summer, #4 in the Badlands Unlimited New Lovers series (Hyperallergic previously reviewed #1–3), the artist/writer looks at a world not unlike our own, where sex, surveillance, and loss of privacy are intertwined in a commodified world of power dynamics ruled by a fictional corporation by the name of Céron Solutions.
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If it had been released back in the early 00s, it would have coexisted easily with hits by the aforementioned rappers—however, in 2017, an era when Snapchat dick pics are de rigeur and Tinder-fueled hookups are more commodified than ever before, CupcakKe could very well end up complementing the mainstream instead of challenging it, representing a sort of evolutionary jump in brazen feminist hip-hop.
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Following that, he led a workshop on his Sonocyb at Aeon Bookstore, moderated by Control Synthesizer's Daren Ho. Organized in collaboration with Sanna Almajedi's monthly Satellite series at Bar Laika by e-flux, Adrian Rew, a curatorial assistant at Blank Forms, staged Ashanti's performance within a more casual art world setting, prompting larger questions of how personal, cultural works hold value in commodified spaces of leisure, excess, and consumption.
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This isn't far from what Theodor Adorno meant when he talked about the "fetish-character" in music, the way that scraps and phrases of great classical pieces are isolated from their context in the work itself, atomized and commodified, so that they can come to stand for "high culture," a chimera that in practice wasn't much more than a crutch for the ego, a way of looking down at other people who don't fetishize the grand signifiers of art.
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By this I mean that my pro-choice friends endorsing Williamson's sacking can't see that his extremism is mirrored in their own, in a system of supposedly "moderate" thought that is often blind to the public's actual opinions on these issues, that lionizes advocates for abortion at any stage of pregnancy, that hands philosophers who favor forms of euthanasia and infanticide prestigious chairs at major universities, that is at best mildly troubled by the quietus of the depressed and disabled in Belgium or the near-eradication of Down syndrome in Iceland or the gendercide that abortion brought to Asia, that increasingly accepts unblinking a world where human beings can be commodified and vivisected so long as they're in embryonic form.
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