Emotions as Commodities Refraction of Light geographical and political change

geographical and political change

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Emotions as Commodities Refraction of Light geographical and political changeCapitalism has made rationality into a pervasive feature of human action and yet, far from heralding a loss of emotionality, capitalist culture has been accompanied with an unprecedented intensification of emotional life. This raises the question: how could we have become increasingly rationalized and more intensely emotional? Emotions as Commodities offers a simple hypothesis: that consumer acts and emotional life have become closely and inseparably