Commodity Fetishism as Semblance

Marxism and Frantz Fanon’s Theory of Colonial Identity: Parallels between Racial and Commodity-Based Fetishism

Despite Frantz Fanon’s and Karl Marx’s shared goal of the emancipation of all human beings from oppression, Fanon maintains in his final book, The Wretched of the Earth, that the connection between his theory of colonial identity and Marxist ideology cannot be reduced to a superficial doctrine of class struggles. Though Fanon resisted an oversimplified comparison with Marxist theory, this paper...

Trust as a Commodity

Trust is central to all transactions and yet economists rarely discuss the notion. It is treated rather as background environment, present whenever called upon, a sort of ever-ready lubricant that permits voluntary participation in production and exchange. In the standard model of a market economy it is taken for granted that consumers meet their budget constraints: they are not allowed to spen...

Paraphilia and Fetishism

Short Note Semblance picking

Tomography in the post-migrated domain is quickly becoming the standard approach for obtaining velocities in complex areas. The standard flow to update the velocity through tomography in the post-migrated domain begins by migrating the data using some initial velocity model. This migration method can be Kirchhoff (Etgen, 1990), downward continuation methods (Clapp, 2001b; Mosher et al., 2001), ...

Diagnostic information as a commodity.

In estimating the cost-effectiveness of diagnostic procedures, it is helpful to treat diagnostic information as a commodity with a unit price. The amount of useful information provided by a test result can be measured in binary units (bits), and the unit price of the information produced by the test result can be expressed in dollars per bit in much the same way that the price of gold is given ...