COMM 2301 Lecture Notes - Subvertising, Buy Nothing Day, Buy Nothing Christmas

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 2301
• Professor: Kirsten Kozolanka

Document Summary

Commodification vs the commons commodification : the [production of a good or services for profit the commons: communal and collective spaces open to all over time the commons continued to be commodified. Cuts public services and changes for use of remaining ones. Narrows rights of citizenship fostered and assisted by speed (technology) and politics (government) Neo-liberals (also called new right ) campaign on persuasive premise of society that is too large and too expensive to maintain in short, commodification is about individualized for profit capitalism. Governments sell off public assets to private business. Comes down to public access vs private profit. Issues in overconsumption 1 commodification + consumption = a dual dynamic for profit. Has reached into all aspects of public life: food, seeds, land, plants, animals I. e monsanto buying seeds and you cant plant unless you buy their seeds. Also prices the priceless : social service, human bodies, knowledge exs.