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The article addresses the issue of property and income inequalities as well as the mechanisms of their formation and growth. It is suggested that these inequalities are primarily an outcome of an ability for capital accumulation depending on the income volume and the needs structure. The thesis is verified by means of a theoretical model of material capital accumulation that is based on the relationship between income, on the one hand, and socially and culturally conditioned needs, on the other. The model is applied to the analysis of capital accumulation in late capitalist societies, Polish society in particular. As a result, four income spheres are identified, each characterized by different mechanisms of accumulation. The basic factor determining the ability to accumulate capital is structural (the place in the social structure). This structural factor is further conditioned by cultural (e.g. consumption patterns), institutional (e.g. tax burden), economic (e.g. rate of return for investments), and other structural (e.g. overall inequalities) factors in determining the ability for capital accumulation.

This article brings the writing of Marie Darrieussecq into dialogue with the philosophy of Catherine Malabou, exploring how both think the mutability and transformability of the body in relation to recent scientific and technological discovery and innovation. From the metamorphosis of a woman into a sow in Truismes (1996) to the cloning of human life in Notre vie dans les forêts (2017), Darrieussecq’s novels foreground the body as a site of constant change and reinvention. Meanwhile, Malabou’s interdisciplinary elaboration of the concept of ‘plasticity’ between continental thought and the biological sciences reveals all structures and forms of life to be plastic and intrinsically open to change, from the neuroplasticity of the human brain to the epigenetic development of organisms. This article presents both Darrieussecq and Malabou as writers and thinkers of plasticity, exploring how their respective plasticities develop through a relationship to science which is itself changeable and ambiguous. In different but converging ways, both suggest how science discovers and innovates with the plasticity of life, whilst often also controlling and manipulating this same plasticity in the context of late capitalism. More optimistically, this article proposes that Darrieussecq and Malabou also envisage a becoming plastic of the sciences themselves, liberating plasticity as a discourse of freedom as a thinking with science, literature, and philosophy., Cet article établit un dialogue entre l’écriture de Marie Darrieussecq et la philosophie de Catherine Malabou, afin d’explorer la façon dont les notions de mutabilité et de transformabilité du corps dans l’oeuvre de chacune se développent au sein d’une rencontre avec les discours scientifiques et technologiques récents. De la métamorphose d’une femme en truie dans Truismes (1996) au clonage humain dans Notre vie dans les forêts (2017), les romans de Darrieussecq mettent en scène le corps comme un lieu de changements et de réinventions constants. En parallèle, dans l’oeuvre de Malabou, l’élaboration interdisciplinaire, entre philosophie et biologie, du concept de « plasticité », suggère un déploiement de cette plasticité à travers toutes les structures et toutes les formes de la vie. La neuroplasticité du cerveau humain et le développement épigénétique de l’organisme font partie des exemples de ces structures intrinsèquement ouvertes à la transformation. Cet article présente Darrieussecq et Malabou comme écrivaines et penseuses de la plasticité tout en montrant que leurs plasticités respectives se développent à travers une relation aux sciences qui est elle aussi mutable et ambiguë. De manières différentes mais convergentes, Darrieussecq et Malabou donnent à voir la façon dont les sciences se découvrent et s’inventent à travers la plasticité, tout en manipulant et instrumentalisant cette même plasticité, notamment dans le contexte du capitalisme tardif. En outre, de manière plus optimiste, ce travail envisage aussi le devenir-plastique des sciences elles-mêmes chez Darrieussecq comme chez Malabou. Le discours sur la plasticité devient discours sur la liberté, où s’entremêlent science, littérature et philosophie.

This article accounts for the allure of sports spectatorship in late capitalism by theorizing spectatorial communities as imagined communities. Building on the work of Benedict Anderson and others,...

Yewande Omotoso’s novel Bom Boy (2011), is centred on the coming-of-age of its protagonist Leke and, therefore, is related to the genre of the Bildungsroman. Leke, however, feels isolated and is st...

Based on the observation of the behavior of local and national governments during the pandemics and the underlying conflicts between different actors and visions, in this contribution I briefly expose some reflections on the necessary triangulation between health, economic and personal rights and the reasons of governments reluctance to implement the measures recommended by sanitary institutions.

The article substantiates the need for socialization of education at the stage of late capitalism and the transition to a new quality of economy and society – noonomy. The social failure of the neoliberal socio-economic policy of the state led to the desocialization of the economy and the marketization of the social sphere. The marketization of education has resulted in regressive trends – commercialization, bureaucratization and managerialism. Qualitative changes in the economy and society associated with the transition to a new technological order and the creative revolution relate not only to the industry, but also directly to the individual and the essence of his work. This requires an accessible education for all and through life. This requires the socialization of education and its transformation towards an egalitarian model.

The religious festivities are integrated into the extensive inventory of the intangible cultural heritage of Mexico. The continuity of their practice stimulates social cohesion, collective identity, peace and ecological awareness. Such manifestations are susceptible to patrimonialization due to their symbolic ex‑ pression and their economic potential in the face of the tourism model, they respond to the imperatives of late capitalism that tends to commodify and homogenize cultural diversity. We study the religious festivities of localities of Bahía de Banderas, in particular that of Nuestra Señora de la Paz in Bucerías and that of Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Tintoque in Valle de Banderas, in order to understand the dominant trends in the processes of patrimonialization. The objective is to contribute to the knowledge of the patrimonial wealth of the coastal towns that have been subject to tourism and with it, develop the methodological instruments to fill out the information sheets of the inventory of festivities in the region.

The Experience of Pandemic Time in Late Capitalism The subject of the article is the transformation of social time in the pandemic reality. The situation caused by COVID-19 provided a unique opportunity to observe sudden changes in the social rhythm. In the considerations conducted from the perspective of time studies, the author tries to specify what these changes are, and also considers how social time is shaped in the economy of late capitalism. The observations show that changes in the organization and experience of social time during a pandemic are shaped mainly on the basis of three categories: power, technology and work. The experience of the crisis of the usual feeling of time and of the uncertainty about the future, resulted in the rise of questions pertaining to the new concepts of time, the effects of this transformation and the upcoming social changes.

Despite contextual differences, the future of smallholder farming faces many similar challenges worldwide. This introduction to the special section previews case studies from Australia, Austria, Ireland and Japan of generational transmission of smallholder farms in late capitalism. It frames key issues in the generational reproduction of smallholder farming, combining perspectives from agrarian studies and youth studies. The cases include intrafamilial succession and extrafamilial transmission to “newcomer” farmers. Intergenerational farm transfers are a two-way interaction between the older and the younger generations, in which neither fully controls the process.

Fast Science, Neoliberal Regimes of Productivity and ICT Technologies: Academy in the Era of COVID-19 Pandemic The goal of the article is to answer the following question: what does the pandemic of COVID -19 reveal in the context of the discussion dedicated to the ways of the functioning of the academy today? Therefore the subject of the analysis is not the disease itself nor its cultural meanings, but the phenomena that, although present before the pandemic outbreak, became far more clear, perceptible and acutely experienced. In the article, our interest is focused on the increase of the pace of virtual social interactions, the speed of information transfer, the enhancement of academic regimes of productivity, the surplus of knowledge generated within the fields of humanities and social sciences and the role of information and communications technologies played in these processes. The main argument is that, the pandemic of COVID-19 shows how, in the context of the academy, the entire logics of late capitalist social relations and neoliberal governing of social subjects is focused.

Parasita (Gisaengchung) 2019, Bacurau 2019 e Coringa (Joker) 2019 fizeram um grande alarde na indústria do cinema em seus lançamentos, mas existem relações muito mais profundas entre os três do que a sua repercussão inicial aponta. Neste trabalho, buscamos relacioná-los com a teoria do capitalismo tardio de Mandel (1998), aliado ao pós-modernismo de Bauman (1998). O trabalho indica que os três filmes têm como proposta central o mesmo tema e problema, ainda que estejam separados por continentes de distância e abordem soluções diferentes, seja pela união da família, do povo de uma nação ou o ultra-individualismo., Parasite (Gisaengchung) 2019, Bacurau 2019 and Joker 2019 made a big splash in the movie industry in their releases, but there are much deeper relationships between the three than their initial repercussions point out. In this work, we seek to relate them to Mandel’s (1998) theory of late capitalism, combined with Bauman’s (1998) postmodernism. The work indicates that the three movies have as their central proposal the same theme and problem, even though they are separated by distant continents and address different solutions, whether through the union of the family, the people of a nation or the ultra-individualism.

In "The Heart Goes Last," her 2015 dystopian novel set in the US in the near future, Margaret Atwood addresses the topic of the post-2008-financial-crisis Great Recession, imagining what a complete collapse of the capitalist economic system could look like somewhere in America. Most critics appear to regret that “this potentially insightful novel about unbridled capitalism” “deflates into a flaccid sex comedy” and really is “a silly mess.” In my paper, I demonstrate that this dismissal of the novel’s central issues of sex and gender as trivial and unrelated to economy is misguided. Turning her attention to marriage and sex Atwood never does abandon the important and timely subject of post-crisis (and always crisis-genic) capitalism. On the contrary, the “rich satire’s” sexual excesses of the rich serve as a hyperbole for the obscene consumption and perverse power of the real “1%.” Furthermore, Atwood highlights the importance of traditional gender roles in maintaining the system's security through a stable heteronormative family unit generating consumers predictable in their consumption from the cradle to the grave. Finally, by speaking about both capitalism and marriage as prison and by putting a suburban housewife side by side with neuroengineered sex slaves and sex robots, Atwood offers a critique of not only American late capitalism, but also the much larger and much older system that contains it: patriarchy.

This thesis examines the theme of alienation under late capitalism in three Kurt Vonnegut novels: Player Piano (1952), Jailbird (1979), and Slapstick, or Lonesome no More! (1976). The three novels discussed in this thesis are examples of post-war American satire writing, and the aim of this thesis is to use these novels to show that postmodern American literature uses satire to portray alienation under late capitalism. This selection of novels exemplifies postmodern satire and its relation to alienation, as it covers both dystopian writing and contemporary political satire. This thesis discusses these three novels against a background of the history of satire in its sociopolitical contexts up to the twentieth century, as well as relates them to theories on postmodernism and postmodern satire. Late capitalism in the postmodern era and its association with alienation is further examined in relation to the novels’ protagonists. Alienation is used mainly as a Marxist term denoting alienation from ones labor, oneself, and one’s relationships. The connection of satire, postmodernism, and late capitalism demonstrates that the postmodern era has seen an abundance of American satirical works about alienation, due to the advent of late capitalism after World War II. Postmodernism and late capitalism as concepts are linked and inseparable in economy and culture, which is why postmodern satirical narratives depict alienation. Alienation in a late capitalist society affects the individual, especially an individual’s connection to their work and their relationship with themselves and others. This thesis connects the phenomenon of alienation to Vonnegut’s three protagonists, who are depicted as apathetic, confused, and passive in their work and personal lives. The role of satire is to criticize the societies created in the novels in order to exemplify the alienated existence of their protagonists as they narrate their struggle with corporations, consumer culture, exaggerated patriotism, and individualism. Satire manifests differently in each novel, but its role is the same – to show that characters in Vonnegut’s work are portrayed as alienated form their work, other people, and their own purpose.

Tämä tutkimus käsittelee yrittäjyyskasvatusta sekä sen taustalla vaikuttavaa eetosta ja politiikkaa myöhäiskapitalismin viitekehyksessä. Erityisesti tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan niitä ajattelun ja moraalisen toiminnan malleja sekä tiedonmuodostuksen ja järkeilyn tapoja, jotka vaikuttivat siihen, että yrittäjyyskasvatuksesta muodostui 2000- luvun alussa niin merkittävä koulutus- ja yhteiskuntapoliittinen interventio. Tutkimuksessa yrittäjyyskasvatusta ei tarkastella millään tietyllä kouluasteella tai tarkasti määritellyssä yhteydessä, vaan kokonaisvaltaisempana koulutus- ja yhteiskuntapoliit- tisena interventiona, jonka päämääränä on saada yksilöt ja yhteisöt toimimaan kuten he tai ne olisivat yrityksiä. Tutkimus rakentuu kolmen tutkimuskysymyksen ympärille: 1) Millainen rationaliteetti ja eetos ovat vaikuttaneet yrittäjyyskasvatukseen liittyvän politiikan taustalla 2) Millaiset episteemis-ontologiset järkeilyn tavat ja tiedontuotannolliset tekniikat vaikuttivat yrittäjyyskasvatuksen toteuttamiseen 3) Millaisia normatiivisia odotuksia yrittäjyyskasvatukseen liittyvä eetos ja politiikka asettavat sille, miten ymmärrämme kansalaisuuden? Tutkimusta voidaan luonnehtia kriittiseksi yrittäjyyskasvatustutkimukseksi. Kriittisen tarkastelun kautta tutkimus tarjoaa vaihtoehtoisia tapoja ymmärtää yrittäjyys- kasvatusta ja sen luonnetta myöhäiskapitalistisessa yhteiskunnassa. Tällaisen immanentin kritiikin muodon kautta kyetään näkemään, että se mikä näyttäytyy tässä hetkessä itsestäänselvältä ja välttämättömältä, voisi yhtä hyvin olla toisin. Tutkimuksen metodologiset lähtökohdat perustuvat hallinnan analytiikan ja toimijaverkkoteorian tarjoamien analyysin välineisiin. Tutkimus koostuu johdanto-osiosta, viidestä vertaisarvioidusta tieteellisestä artikkelista sekä yhteenveto-osiosta. Johdanto-osiossa esitellään tutkimuksen aihe, tutkimuksen tieteenfilosofinen orientaatio sekä sen teoreettis-metodologiset lähtökohdat. Seuraavaksi tutkimuksessa esitellään siihen kuuluvat viisi tutkimusartikkelia sekä niiden yhteys tutkimuskysymyksiin. Yhteenveto-osio koostuu kolmesta luvusta, joissa kussakin vastataan tutkimukselle asetettuihin tutkimuskysymyksiin. Tutkimus antaa vastauksia siihen, millaisena koulutus- ja yhteiskuntapoliittisena interventiona yrittäjyyskasvatusta voidaan ymmärtää myöhäiskapitalismin viitekehyksessä. Samalla se tarjoaa suuntaviivoja sille, kuinka koulutus- ja yhteiskuntapoliittisia interventiota on mahdollista tarkastella kokonaisuuksina, joiden taustalla on vaikuttavat niin aatehistorialliset tekijät, ajattelun ja järkeilyn tavat, ontologiset näkemykset sosiaalisen maailman luonteesta kuin useat ei-inhimilliset toimijat, kuten mittaristot. The research examines entrepreneurship education as well as its ethos and political underpinnings in the framework of late capitalism. It focuses in particular on those modes of thinking and moral agency and those ways of knowledge creation and reasoning that contributed to entrepreneurship education becoming in the early 21st century such a weighty intervention in education policies and public policy. Rather than focusing on any specific context such as a particular level of education, the research examines entrepreneurship education as an intervention in education policies and public policies that aims to make individuals and groups act as if they were enterprises. Three research questions give the thesis its structure: 1) What type of rationality and ethos are active in politics related to entrepreneurship education? 2) Which modes of epistemic and ontological reasoning and which types of knowledge crea- tion affected the implementation of entrepreneurship education? 3) What normative expectations do the politics and the ethos of entrepreneurship education set to our understanding of citizenship? This contribution can be characterized as critical research in entrepreneurship education. Through critical examination it offers alternative ways of understanding entrepreneurship education and its ethos in late capitalist society. Taking the form of immanent critique, it shows how that which is now seen as obvious or necessary could just as well be otherwise. The methodological basis of the research is built around analytical tools offered by governmentality studies and the actor-network theory. This thesis comprises five peer-reviewed scientific articles together with an intro- duction and a conclusion. The introduction presents the research topic, its orientation in terms of philosophy of science and its theoretical and methodological basis. This is followed by an overview of the five articles and a discussion of their articulations with the research questions. The conclusion contains three chapters, each of them dedicated to answering one of the research questions. The research provides answers to how entrepreneurship education can be understood as an education policy and public policy oriented intervention in the framework of late capitalism. It also offers pointers for examining interventions in education policy and public policy as complex wholes influenced by ideological and historical factors, ways of thinking and reasoning, ontological views concerning the nature of the social world as well as non-human agents such as systems of metrics.

Meat consumption worldwide is increasing, for meat has become a fetishized commodity, a status symbol. What Karl Marx has called the fetishism of commodities denotes the separation of the production and consumption process of commodities. Positively connotated values have been attributed to the commodity meat with the help of advertising and the media and manifest themselves in language and cultural activities. Health, power, and virility are prominent properties ascribed to the product meat which are desired male attributes, too. The consumption of meat, particularly red meat, is thus linked to the social construction of masculinity which in turn manifests and perpetuates the system of patriarchy. Meanings inherent in the production and consumption of red meat in the U.S. can be traced back to the times of the frontier, the times of the mythological Wild West. Today, in late capitalism, these meanings are adapted as well as expanded by tailored advertising. The way meat is produced in late capitalism differs greatly from former times, too: factory farming and disassembly lines in the slaughtering process have notable effects on animals and workers alike. Fredric Jameson, a Marxist critic, has revealed distinctive characteristics of this present age of late capitalism which are identified and discussed in the two cultural texts addressed in this thesis. Meat is the name of the flesh of dead animals. For the pleasurable consumption of meat in postmodernity, the reminiscence of living animals and their dreadful lives and slaughter are repressed, furthered and excused through the construction of speciesism, the process of othering. Not only non-human animals are othered, though: women are seen as a different kind of species, too, and so are migrant workers and foreign peoples altogether. In late capitalism, the production of meat has severe ramifications. These encompass environmental threats like greenhouse gas emissions, freshwater usage, biodiversity loss, land degradation, and deforestation, health hazards, and social changes. Government’s assistance and acquiescence have led to the development of oligopolistic multinational corporations which can no longer be governed by national polity. Moreover, the U.S. government has become complicit with meatpackers who employ rent-seeking rather than improve conditions in their businesses: they invest in lobbying activities and donations to political parties. As almost everything in late capitalism is commodified, postmodernism its supposed cultural counterpart has become its duplicate: late capitalism and postmodernism have become one inextricably entangled unity. Mass media and in particular television are the means in postmodernism to manipulate und shape the beliefs of a society by disseminating ideologies. They influence, manipulate, and control not only consumer behaviour but attitudes towards other humans and non-human animals. To allow for a pleasurable consumption process of meat, its origins are suppressed by willed, collective forgetting. Just as in late capitalism workers have become an indistinguishable mass of replaceable, precarious subjects, people in postmodernism have become an indistinguishable mass of consumers, too. They are decentralized by the system of late capitalism alias postmodernism and struggle to orient and position themselves within the scheme. In order to achieve that, they employ language and fetishized of commodities. They relate to each other through the acquisition of commodities what Marx has famously called that the language of commodities. Jameson has identified the current stage of capitalism as the purest capitalism ever to exist. Thus, a Marxist approach congenially serves for the analysis of the two cultural texts in this thesis wherein features of late capitalism alias postmodernism are revealed and discussed., Ingrid Mathilde Kohlbach, Masterarbeit Universität Klagenfurt 2022

The aim of this research paper is to identify and explore industrial workers attitudes towards labour considering the context of the late capitalist welfare state and the political term ”Arbetslinjen”. Furthermore the paper aims to critically examine how practices of power and resistance operates in the postmodern factory. The study relates this notion to a discourse analysis framework in addition to a foucauldian understanding of power, discipline and resistance. Theory is used to argue that factory workers attitudes are influenced by institutionalized and hegemonic discourse that constitute wage labour as the macro-political norm. Additionally the study asserts that wage workers basis for work-related resistance is conditional given power relations in the capitalist production hierarchy in addition to the rise of temporary work agencies. The empirical data consists of qualitative interviews with ten industrial workers which are all involved in the Swedish car or food manufacturing industry. Throughout the study applies a social constructionist approach, consequently the cardinal focus of my analysis is subjective attitudes and perceptions of the constitution of wage labour generally, and industrial work particularly.

In this study entitled "La generación Nocilla y despolitización de la novela posmoderna española", I address and dispute the critical literary associations currently established between the postmodern literature of the Nocilla generation and that of Juan Goytisolo. My research exposes these affiliations as a contrived marketing strategy that seeks to legitimize and promote the contemporary postmodern literary works of the Nocilla generation. Specifically I compare the postmodern literature of the Mendiola trilogy (1966-1975) by Juan Goytisolo with the multimedia Nocilla project of Agustín Fernández Mallo, to demonstrate how the postmodern Spanish novel has evolved from Goytisolo’s political discourse of dissent to the Nocilla generation, a contemporary literary production that legitimizes the culture of late capitalism through the aesthetic exercise of neoliberal principles. While Goytisolo’s postmodern texts are a politically charged assault against the forms of discursive hegemony that reestablish the authorities of social order, my dissertation reveals how the Nocilla works remain disassociated from the ideologies of sociopolitical and cultural revolution, as they instead endorse and employ the commodifying effects of the contemporary culture industry. Therefore this study challenges the established literary scholarship by determining that the postmodern Nocilla works of Agustín Fernández Mallo have a different function and intention than that of the postmodern literature of Juan Goytisolo. En este estudio titulado "La generación Nocilla y despolitización de la novela posmoderna española", refuto las afiliaciones actualmente establecidas por la crítica literaria entre la literatura posmoderna de la generación Nocilla y la de Juan Goytisolo. Mi investigación expone estas relaciones como una estrategia mercadotécnica forzada que busca legitimar y promover las obras posmodernas contemporáneas de la generación Nocilla. En concreto, comparo la literatura posmoderna de la trilogía Mendiola (1966-1975) de Juan Goytisolo con el proyecto multimedia Nocilla de Agustín Fernández Mallo, para demostrar cómo la novela española posmoderna ha evolucionado del discurso políticamente disidente de Goytisolo, hacia la producción literaria Nocilla dirigida a la legitimación de la cultura del capitalismo tardía a través del ejercicio estético de los principios neoliberales. Mientras que los textos posmodernos de Goytisolo son un ataque de las formas de la hegemonía discursiva que restablecen las autoridades del orden social, mi tesis expone cómo las obras Nocilla de Fernández Mallo permanecen desafiliadas de las ideologías para una revolución sociopolítica y cultural porque afirman y ejercen los efectos mercantilizantes de la industria cultural contemporánea. Así que la meta de este estudio es retar la establecida crítica literaria por determinar que las obras posmodernas de Agustín Fernández Mallo tienen una función e intención distintas de las de la literatura posmoderna de Juan Goytisolo.

Olivia Laing assembles a decade’s worth of her writing about art and culture in this rich collection of essays which are loosely grouped by category with little chronological constraint. Her own artistic curation creates a temporal doubling, a dialogue between and within essays, and a meta commentary on political, environmental, social and cultural emergencies. Composed on both sides of the Atlantic during the austerity decade 2011-2020, her work addresses these issues and their interrelated resonance over the long twentieth century. Reading these pieces in conversation with each other unmoors them from their initial publication contexts to create a larger, entangled embodiment of actors, canvases and environment in the broadest sense of these terms. In this sweeping cultural interrogation of the period, Laing complicates her evaluations by engaging in paranoid yet reparative readings in homage to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. By ‘gathering information’ and ‘tracing links’, Laing allows the minoritised and excluded to speak through original acts of creation and expression and, through her animated entangled (re)creation, addresses the swelling forces of late capitalism.

The article presents a philosophical study of the social, political, legal, labor, cultural and anthropological status of a person in modern conditions of informatization, economic liberalism, limited employment, post-democracy, visual culture and a pandemic. The growth of the precariat is regarded as a catalyst for the movement of opposite vectors: the activities of the power and the performative actionism of political subjects. As the optimal integrative tactics of a person of late capitalism, his bodily and spiritual self-exploitation is considered.

A partir de breve análise sobre dois vídeos ASMR - Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (Resposta Meridional Sensorial Autônoma), disponíveis na rede social youtube, o autor propõe ensaio a respeito da escuta contemporânea. A subcultura do ASMR e a estética do formigamento são apresentados como modos emergentes de consumo audiovisual em diálogo com as noções de anestética, de Walter Benjamin e de erotismo de George Bataille. A hipótese decorrente é o surgimento de uma realização erótica e estética autômata, fruto da relação humana nas redes sociotécnicas, que potencializa a alienação do sono pelo capitalismo tardio.