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- noun The assignment of a
commercial value to something previously valueless.
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Examples
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I worry that in league with commodification is a larger problem, one that will last far beyond the point in time when all the po-commodity money ($50 in total) is spent.
Why I Am Not a Poet-Mom : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Finally, the arguement about the commodification is old.
Why I Am Not a Poet-Mom : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Brown's link between femininity and commodification is succinctly stated as follows:
Notes on 'The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire' 2006
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If we look closely at Equiano's account of his manumission this link between feminization and commodification is already operative.
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006
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George needs a lesson in commodification no less than in protestant election.
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006
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One of the critiques of commodification is that putting prices on certain activities may drain all the joy out of life.
Balkinization 2006
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They write: The antidote to water commodification is its decommodification.
world water day 2005
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The Ninth Circuit decision should also spur a moral dialogue about the idea of "commodification."
A Lifesaving Legal Ruling on Organ Donation Sally Satel 2011
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But I suppose I am a luddite in that I oppose the idea of commodification, or rather that people, experience and emotion can have a residual commodity value.
Bigots at badminton and difficulties going to paradise Elizabeth McClung 2009
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Baffler editors have called commodification of dissent stretches back to Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment and is alive and well in what he calls the "alienation market" in which films like Fahrenheit 9 / 11 either already have or are destined to make bundles (relatively speaking, of course).
GreenCine Daily 2009
mialuthien commented on the word commodification
commodification – the transformation of relationships, formerly untainted by commerce, into commercial relationships, relationships of buying and selling
July 14, 2008