With Marx’s Ecology, John Bellamy Foster has written the definitive account of Karl Marx and Frederich Engels’s materialism. Its title notwithstanding, Marx’s Ecology is far more than an account of Marx’s thinking about nature. Marx’s materialism is not contained within the critique of capitalism, Foster argues, but rather the other way around—it is Marx’s critique of capitalism that is contain...

Abstract The present study examined how adolescents’ materialism relates to interpersonal role models (i.e., mothers’, fathers’, siblings’, and peers’), media exposure, family socio-economic status (SES). We obtained our data from the adolescent, his/her mother father, one each of siblings peers. results showed that mother’s, father’s, sibling’s peer’s’, are approximately equally strong predict...

Is materialism still relevant to critically think politics? Throughout modernity, the concept of was associated with fatalism and naturalism, when it not simply dismissed as heresy atheism. In nineteenth century, evolved into a central progressive politics, reappearing again in past decades through renewed Marxist Spinoza-based approaches, New Materialism, feminist discourses. This volume inqui...

With the advent of ‘the virtual world,’ we have naturally gauged ‘reality’ in terms how close it comes to empirical experience. However, common association simulation depends on a representational dualism that reduces simulacrum reality and prevents us from seeing its real import. Virtuality, rather than related simulation, refers instead potentiality. Far being something first appears with dig...