Security has come to embody a self-evident and much sought-after kind of good, colonise imaginaries, debates, policies, large swathes what social life means in various corners the world. Echoing postcolonial calls for decentring that which is taken granted, my essay seeks provincialise security three distinct ways. Drawing on research securitisation Roma Italy, first, I trace transformation ter...

Scientific materialism is the largely unquestioned basis for modern science's understanding of life. It also holds enormous sway beyond science and thus has increasingly marginalized religious perspectives. Yet it is easy to find behavioral phenomena from the accepted literature that seriously challenge materialism. A number of these phenomena are very suggestive of reincarnation. The larger te...

Object-oriented ontology, speculative realism, new materialism, and similar contemporary philosophies, proposing alternative theories to understand the world relations within, became more prevalent effective in last two decades. However, expect several solitary examples; these do not seem be having a transformative effect on design disciplines, theory, practices. This paper initially introduces...

Purpose This study aims at investigating how the level of brand–consumer interaction between luxury brands and consumers on social media may affect perception brands’ luxuriousness. In particular, this is focused moderating role consumers’ materialism. Design/methodology/approach adopted a quantitative approach. Data were collected with two online experiments. Study 1 was run to test whether br...

This paper argues for an approach within the medical humanities that draws on the theoretical legacy of cultural materialism as a framework for reading cultural practices and their relationship to the social and economic order. It revisits the origins and development of cultural materialism in cultural studies and literary studies between the 1970s and 1990s and considers how, with adaptation, ...