Jonathan Dettman

Paper presented April 10, 2008 in Flagstaff, Arizona.

EXTRACT:

“Mi análisis se centra en la relación de Papel picado con el género policial o, más bien, con la estética o el ambiente “noir”, asociado con la variante “hard-boiled” del género. La tesis que sustento tiene dos partes. La primera es que en Papel picado hay una serie [...]

Paper presented April 4, 2009 at the University of California, Irvine.

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Wertkritik focuses its analysis on abstract value as a “real abstraction” that constitutes an end in itself and that generates capital’s overall dynamic. Anticapitalist movements have all failed because they have been unable to alter this dynamic, which would entail truly overcoming the commodity [...]

Paper presented June 19, 2009 at Portland State University.

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“In an essay written against Thorstein Veblen’s theory of ‘conspicuous consumption,’ Adorno expressed disagreement with Veblen’s characterization of luxury consumption as an unequivocal manifestation of bad faith, because the consumer does, in fact, derive real satisfaction from the object consumed. This negative appraisal of Veblen is [...]