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And in turn we rely on a commodified understanding of one another.

"Hopes and dreams are being accomplished in the most commodified city in the nation," he said.

America does this to every culture, everything from rap music to skateboarding to golf; it always becomes commodified.

Proceeding to the next stage more or less requires giving away products at the more commodified level.

"A commodified subjectivity" is a way of looking at a world strongly influenced by late-20th-century materialism.

What a crazy commodified world this is.

In an increasingly commodified world, it turns out that genuine expressions of kindness and art are valued more than ever.

Books have always been recognised as more than simply a commodity and in an increasingly commodified world this is extremely important.

The video, which runs six minutes, is considered a critique of the commodified versions of traditional women's roles in modern society.

Many of the Maasai people are forced into a willingness to play into the commodified stereotypes of their culture for economic benefit.

They are actively and tangibly taking commodified music, putting it on a turntable and reinserting their changes on its form.

In Taiwanese society, all migrant brides are often stigmatized for their poor class, gender position, and the commodified nature of their marriage (Wang 2008).

But that won't trouble Mr Stewart from his cosy commodified space churning out positivist edu-product to the spawn of the business class.

These revolts can be distinguished from medieval revolts like Wat Tyler's on the basis that they occurred inside a commodified production system.

She thinks she has spotted an encouraging phenomenon among people "downshifting" to lower-paid, less demanding jobs and curbing their appetites for "commodified leisure."

Many people in the West are honest yoga practitioners but in the USA yoga has become a commodified fad for big business.

The purpose of commodified American media is to lure the largest numbers of "eyeballs" to the ad or to the box office with images of high impact.

Karl Marx thought of Capitalist society as infringing on individual autonomy, by enforcing a commodified concept of the body as something rented for work:

How then does the play's erotic ethos relate to today's sexually commodified culture of Calvin Klein, Frederick's of Hollywood, breast implants and Viagra?

Commodified Kin: Death, Mourning, and Competing Claims on the Bodies of Organ Donors in the United States.

Robert Christgau, a senior editor at the Village Voice, said, "It's unrealistic to act as if popular music sometimes isn't very commodified or to believe that commodification isn't the end of it."

I saw these parties as a community center where people can come together and dance, drink, mingle, make out, get heady and loose, look at the stars or whatever, in ways we can't in more commodified places.

Idiosyncratic, individual voices continue to flourish in many corners of the American media world, from Web bloggers to that model of commodified dissent, Michael Moore, currently playing in a multiplex near you.