Month: July 2017

The CHAR-MAN

The CHAR-MAN The legend of the “Char Man” was in wide circulation when I was a high    school student in the Ojai Valley, a small, quiet, mountain-ringed community about fourteen miles inland from Ventura, California. I have heard the story many times from my peers, and my version seems to be very typical. Here…

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Fictitious Capital and the Return of Personal Domination – The Philosophical Salon

Fictitious Capital and the Return of Personal Domination – The Philosophical Salon Far from being invisible, social relationality in its very fluidity is directly the object of marketing and exchange. In “cultural capitalism,” one no longer sells (and buys) objects that “bring” cultural or emotional experience; one directly sells (and buys) such experiences. And since…

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