Introduction In his 1986 treatise entitled The Postmodern Condition, Jean-Francois Lyotard famously describes postmodernity as an incredulity toward metanarratives. This description illustrates the kind of fetishism with which cultural studies theorists have always latched onto buzzwords. But it is the telling subtitle of this same book A Report on Knowledge that hints at some of the shared con...

It seems on the face of it to be inherently a good thing: More ideas are better ideas. As translated into media policy, this becomes the principle of« diversity." Media content diversity is still a good thing, but in operationalizatioil matters become more complex. Questions about just what it is that is "diverse" and how the extent of diversity can be measured are the subjects of the rest of t...

This paper presents autobiographical images of management consulting that are juxtaposed with a variety of historical images of modern capitalism. The method employed in this paper, montage[1], has been inspired by Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, which is a materialist philosophy of the history of modernity that was constructed with ‘utmost concreteness’ out of historical material of the Par...

Abstract In this Modern Asian Studies book symposium, scholars of South Asia analyse the political, ethical, and epistemic aspects market life. They build on 2020 Cambridge volume, Rethinking Markets in India: Embedded Exchange Contested Jurisdiction , edited by Ajay Gandhi, Barbara Harriss-White, Douglas Haynes, Sebastian Schwecke. This interdisciplinary conversation approaches transactional r...

This article addresses the consequences of theory in social science. It suggests that has become fetishized and contributes to class differentiation as most people are excluded from its increasingly obfuscating form. Fetishism implies what used be a means for clarifying explaining world an end itself. presents alternative approach de-fetishized, using example recent attempt theorize smartphone....

Abstract The following article seeks to question the deterministic tinge behind entanglement fetishism, namely celebratory, uninhibited, and totalising projection of world as a relational wholeness. Alongside rise Anthropocene debates claimed incapacity post-positivism account for contemporary socio-natural transformations, text embarks on two main goals. On one hand, sketches brief genealogy p...

Transnational police readily use martial language in the stories they tell about their work. Their actual work, however, tells a different and less dramatic story. Why, then, do insist on these warlike tales? Why is there discrepancy between self-representation of transnational policing its reality? Using an ethnographic study, this article provides some answers. First, it includes overview thr...