CMNS 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Commodity Fetishism, Silvia Federici, Liberal Feminism
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Fall 20 ideology is everywhere commodity fetishism value must be produced e. x. water value doesn"t exist in objects but in the eyes of the beholder an illusion that we are not conscious. Marx: commodities exist to be bought and sold not bc they are a need or useful to us. Philosophy of modernity: ontology: mode of being. What is the complex reality of the world: epistemology: perspectives of understanding the world. How can we understand the complex reality of the world: axiology: ethics. What are the moral and political principles appropriate for action: ontology modern society; 1760 onward: industrial revolutions in western europe and. The rising bourgeois class ultimately undermined feudal society: the modern (capitalist) nation states replaced feudal monarchy. Secularization (civil society, non-religious values and secular institutions: epistemology. Universal modernism (positivist, technocentric, and rationalistic): belief in linear progress, absolute truths, the rational planning of ideal social orders, and the standardization of knowledge and production (harvey, 1989, p. 9)
