Experience, Commodification, Biopolitics

Bibliographic Data

ID2370168
AuthorsAnna-Maria Murtola (Auckland University of Technology), Anna‐Maria Murtola (0000-0002-2921-7794, Auckland University of Technology, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume40
Issue6
Pages835-854
Publication date2014-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0896920513494230
OpenAlexW2005152204
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited17

Although the commodification of experience has been a long-standing concern for critical scholars, today the breadth and depth of this practice and the conscious manipulation involved is unparalleled. In this paper I analyse contemporary commodification of experience drawing on insights from the early Frankfurt school and autonomist thought. In doing so, I show how contemporary commodification of experience, understood in particular in terms of expropriation of the affective common, comprises a form of biopolitical exploitation that is part of broader biopolitical struggles in which capital seeks to draw the entirety of human life into its circuit of valorization. Although the critique of the Frankfurt school remains important, the variety of forms of experience for sale today warrants a broader politico-economic analysis in light of historical changes in the logic of accumulation and the operation of the commodity-form, which autonomist thought can help illuminate

Aesthetics · Biopower · Commodification · Commodity · Economics · Economy · Environmental ethics · Expropriation · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation

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