Matthias Zick Varul
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 217906 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Matthias Zick Varul |
| PRENOMES | Matthias Zick |
| SOBRENOME | Varul |
| ASSINATURA | VARUL M Z |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Exeter |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The cultural tragedy of production and the expropriation of the brickolariat
The Lego Movie is analysed as a consumer-capitalist myth reworking audience expectations and frustrations under contemporary capitalism into a comforting and consumable story. It does so by summoning two heterogeneous mythical topoi which are available as slates in the Western cultural repertoire, namely that of Plato’s demiurgic cosmogony and Erotic anthropology to represent a producerist engineering ethos, and the Native American Coyote stories…
A time to pray, a time to play
Based on empirical research on the emergence of consumerism in Saudi Arabia, this article examines the shifts in the understanding of time that emerge in the competing paradigms of traditional and Islamic time, globalised world time and the individualisation of time in consumer pursuits. While Islamic time still provides the dominant frame for social life in Saudi Arabia, there have been adaptions to global time. While these are relatively unprob…
Veblen in the (Inner) City
Drawing on Veblen's concept of 'pecuniary prowess' I will argue that the August riots can be understood not so much in terms of protest but as an appropriation of the underlying acquisitive logic of capitalism. The violent realisation of that logic across class divides has become more likely due to an erosion in plausibility of discourses of meritocratic legitimacy. Recent denigrating discourses around 'chavs' as dangerous and undeserving poor ca…
Talcott Parsons, the Sick Role and Chronic Illness
Parsons' sick role concept has become problematic in the face of the increased significance of chronic illnesses and the growing emphasis on lifestylecentred health promotion. Both developments de-limit the medical system so that it extends into the world of health, fundamentally changing the doctor-patient relationship. But as the sick role is firmly based on the reciprocities of a resiliently capitalist achievement society it still informs norm…
After Heroism
Using Protestantism and Islam as examples, the intricate relation between consumerism and religion is examined. Beyond the opposition of religious ‘heroic’ anti-consumerism and secular ‘romantic’ consumerism, it will be argued, there is mutual accommodation and even convergence. On the one hand consumerism challenges religion by taking over some genuinely religious functions; on the other hand it exacerbates and accelerates a religious dynamics o…
Consuming the Campesino
This paper aims to reconstruct the everyday moral plausibility of fair trade consumerism by linking it back to an analysis of the moral grammar of capitalist consumer culture and understanding it as both an actualization and development of this moral grammar. Fair trade movements re-moralize global markets by insisting on a just price for Third-World produce. The paradigm for fair exchange is the equitability implied in ordinary practices of comm…
Veblen, Thorstein (1857–1929)
Thorstein Veblen, US economist and social theorist, argued for an evolutionary‐institutionalist approach to social development. History is a non‐teleological process in which, by quasi‐Darwinian selection, institutions survive according to their fit with the current “state of the industrial arts.” Inert institutions inhibit further technological progress beyond the state they are adapted to facilitate. In this context, Veblen developed the theory…
Leisure Class
The concept of the leisure class was introduced by Thorstein Veblen in his Theory of the Leisure Class (1899). Leisure classes here consist of those people who, due to their social position, can afford to abstain from productive work and live on other people's labor. They confine themselves to non‐industrial occupations like “government, warfare, religious observances, and sports.” Their income is sourced from exploitation of industrial classes t…
Waste, Industry and Romantic Leisure
Veblen's work contains a neglected, since for the most part implicit, theory of recognition centred on his concepts of waste and workmanship. This article tries to develop this theory in order to shed new light on the theorem of conspicuous leisure and consumption. The legitimacy of violence at the 'predatory stage' of culture has been partly superseded by a legitimacy of industrial efficiency, so that the leisure classes need to disguise their c…
Talcott Parsons, the Sick Role and Chronic Illness
Parsons' sick role concept has become problematic in the face of the increased significance of chronic illnesses and the growing emphasis on lifestylecentred health promotion. Both developments de-limit the medical system so that it extends into the world of health, fundamentally changing the doctor-patient relationship. But as the sick role is firmly based on the reciprocities of a resiliently capitalist achievement society it still informs norm…
Consuming the Campesino
This paper aims to reconstruct the everyday moral plausibility of fair trade consumerism by linking it back to an analysis of the moral grammar of capitalist consumer culture and understanding it as both an actualization and development of this moral grammar. Fair trade movements re-moralize global markets by insisting on a just price for Third-World produce. The paradigm for fair exchange is the equitability implied in ordinary practices of comm…
Waste, Industry and Romantic Leisure
Veblen's work contains a neglected, since for the most part implicit, theory of recognition centred on his concepts of waste and workmanship. This article tries to develop this theory in order to shed new light on the theorem of conspicuous leisure and consumption. The legitimacy of violence at the 'predatory stage' of culture has been partly superseded by a legitimacy of industrial efficiency, so that the leisure classes need to disguise their c…
After Heroism
Using Protestantism and Islam as examples, the intricate relation between consumerism and religion is examined. Beyond the opposition of religious ‘heroic’ anti-consumerism and secular ‘romantic’ consumerism, it will be argued, there is mutual accommodation and even convergence. On the one hand consumerism challenges religion by taking over some genuinely religious functions; on the other hand it exacerbates and accelerates a religious dynamics o…
Veblen in the (Inner) City
Drawing on Veblen's concept of 'pecuniary prowess' I will argue that the August riots can be understood not so much in terms of protest but as an appropriation of the underlying acquisitive logic of capitalism. The violent realisation of that logic across class divides has become more likely due to an erosion in plausibility of discourses of meritocratic legitimacy. Recent denigrating discourses around 'chavs' as dangerous and undeserving poor ca…
Leisure Class
The concept of the leisure class was introduced by Thorstein Veblen in his Theory of the Leisure Class (1899). Leisure classes here consist of those people who, due to their social position, can afford to abstain from productive work and live on other people's labor. They confine themselves to non‐industrial occupations like “government, warfare, religious observances, and sports.” Their income is sourced from exploitation of industrial classes t…
Waste, Industry and Romantic Leisure
Veblen's work contains a neglected, since for the most part implicit, theory of recognition centred on his concepts of waste and workmanship. This article tries to develop this theory in order to shed new light on the theorem of conspicuous leisure and consumption. The legitimacy of violence at the 'predatory stage' of culture has been partly superseded by a legitimacy of industrial efficiency, so that the leisure classes need to disguise their c…
Veblen, Thorstein (1857–1929)
Thorstein Veblen, US economist and social theorist, argued for an evolutionary‐institutionalist approach to social development. History is a non‐teleological process in which, by quasi‐Darwinian selection, institutions survive according to their fit with the current “state of the industrial arts.” Inert institutions inhibit further technological progress beyond the state they are adapted to facilitate. In this context, Veblen developed the theory…
Leisure Class
The concept of the leisure class was introduced by Thorstein Veblen in his Theory of the Leisure Class (1899). Leisure classes here consist of those people who, due to their social position, can afford to abstain from productive work and live on other people's labor. They confine themselves to non‐industrial occupations like “government, warfare, religious observances, and sports.” Their income is sourced from exploitation of industrial classes t…
After Heroism
Using Protestantism and Islam as examples, the intricate relation between consumerism and religion is examined. Beyond the opposition of religious ‘heroic’ anti-consumerism and secular ‘romantic’ consumerism, it will be argued, there is mutual accommodation and even convergence. On the one hand consumerism challenges religion by taking over some genuinely religious functions; on the other hand it exacerbates and accelerates a religious dynamics o…
Consuming the Campesino
This paper aims to reconstruct the everyday moral plausibility of fair trade consumerism by linking it back to an analysis of the moral grammar of capitalist consumer culture and understanding it as both an actualization and development of this moral grammar. Fair trade movements re-moralize global markets by insisting on a just price for Third-World produce. The paradigm for fair exchange is the equitability implied in ordinary practices of comm…
Talcott Parsons, the Sick Role and Chronic Illness
Parsons' sick role concept has become problematic in the face of the increased significance of chronic illnesses and the growing emphasis on lifestylecentred health promotion. Both developments de-limit the medical system so that it extends into the world of health, fundamentally changing the doctor-patient relationship. But as the sick role is firmly based on the reciprocities of a resiliently capitalist achievement society it still informs norm…
Veblen in the (Inner) City
Drawing on Veblen's concept of 'pecuniary prowess' I will argue that the August riots can be understood not so much in terms of protest but as an appropriation of the underlying acquisitive logic of capitalism. The violent realisation of that logic across class divides has become more likely due to an erosion in plausibility of discourses of meritocratic legitimacy. Recent denigrating discourses around 'chavs' as dangerous and undeserving poor ca…
A time to pray, a time to play
Based on empirical research on the emergence of consumerism in Saudi Arabia, this article examines the shifts in the understanding of time that emerge in the competing paradigms of traditional and Islamic time, globalised world time and the individualisation of time in consumer pursuits. While Islamic time still provides the dominant frame for social life in Saudi Arabia, there have been adaptions to global time. While these are relatively unprob…
The cultural tragedy of production and the expropriation of the brickolariat
The Lego Movie is analysed as a consumer-capitalist myth reworking audience expectations and frustrations under contemporary capitalism into a comforting and consumable story. It does so by summoning two heterogeneous mythical topoi which are available as slates in the Western cultural repertoire, namely that of Plato’s demiurgic cosmogony and Erotic anthropology to represent a producerist engineering ethos, and the Native American Coyote stories…
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