This collection is not the first to discuss funding cuts, the emergence of more authoritarian managerial styles, the growth of non-academic bureaucracies, the increasing stress on
commodifiable knowledge, job training, threats to disciplines that cannot increase enrolment, attacks on tenure, or the growth of precarious academic labour.
At the same time, ancestry is seductive and
commodifiable and one's 'need to know' might bear a heavy price tag that is, at this stage, unknowable.
So if you have a medium that doesn't leave a surplus then it is not
commodifiable. In other words, at the heart of what contemporary artists are doing, when they produce works with a short duration, is that they are also commenting on the role of art as something
commodifiable, which then relates to the earlier argument of patronage.
It would point to the social and class implications of the spread of literacy under Protestant sponsorship, the challenge to clerical authority in religion, and the very beginnings of a sense of religion as a material and
commodifiable market.
I have also described neoliberalism as an imperial and colonizing set of constituent discourses (marketization, privatization, deregulation, commodification) that is constantly deployed with the aim of reframing and re-making more areas of life in its own image: that of the market and of private,
commodifiable goods (Davidson-Harden, 2009b).
For the cartridge exists outside of a market economy and thus is driven by no
commodifiable forces such as those condemned by Jameson and Hyde.
These markets and systems make the translation of "Chinese culture" necessary, while also rendering that culture eminently alienable and
commodifiable, capable of being consumed across culturally specific boundaries.
Moreover, what is mocked here is precisely the desire for Buddhism to be something for us--for Tantra to fulfill capitalism's dream of
commodifiable spirituality.
Perhaps it is easy to be wary of this film, to cynicize it in a way because what else have those who reveal themselves and their shortcomings onscreen become but another commodity?--as though their cravenness for fame, to become
commodifiable, so easily translates into some sort of documented tell-all because to speak of horrors is still to speak of something.
In contrast to research funded by corporate interests, this relationship between the laboratory and defense strategy has helped to improve our understanding of lobsters and other animals as more than
commodifiable products through experiments like the one described.