From the culture industry to the society of the spectacle: Critical theory and the situationist international
- K. Gotham, Daniel Krier
- Economics
- 28 July 2008
On Rereading Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies
- Kevin S. Amidon, Daniel Krier
- Art
- 1 June 2009
Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies has generated broad interest in the literature of several academic disciplines. His analysis of the symbolic and gender dynamics of the leaders of the German…
Political Moderation and Polarization in the Heartland: Economics, Rurality, and Social Identity in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
- Ann M. Oberhauser, Daniel Krier, Abdi M. Kusow
- SociologyThe Sociological Quarterly
- 3 April 2019
ABSTRACT The 2016 U.S. presidential election was a watershed event that signaled decreasing political moderation and increasing partisan polarization, authoritarianism, and ethno-nationalism. Iowa,…
Finance Capital, Neo-Liberalism and Critical Institutionalism
- Daniel Krier
- Economics
- 1 May 2009
Classical critical institutionalism is compared to recent `neo-instititutionalism' in economics, sociology and organizational studies. Both approaches developed during a regime change within…
THE ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL IMPACTS OF VETERANS ON RURAL AMERICA: THE CASE OF IOWA *
- Daniel Krier, C. Stockner, P. Lasley
- Economics
- 2011
Rural America has long been a crucial supplier of recruits and civilian personnel to the U.S. military. Rural America is also an essential source of cultural and political support for military…
CRITICAL INSTITUTIONALISM AND FINANCIAL GLOBALIZATION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN AND CONTINENTAL FINANCE
- Daniel Krier
- Economics
- 2008
The globalization of financial markets is essentially an Americanization of financial institutions: institutional structures and speculative dynamism unique to American finance is rapidly displacing…
The Commodification of Spectacle: Spectators, Sponsors and the Outlaw Biker Diegesis at Sturgis
- Daniel Krier, W. Swart
- Economics
- 1 January 2016
This article conceptualizes economies of spectatorship through a case study of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally (SMR). Economies of spectatorship produce spectacular diegeses as commodities sold to…
How Legends Become Brands: The Culture Industry in the Second Enclosure Movement
- Daniel Krier, W. Swart
- Business
- 6 November 2015
Abstract
Purpose
Capital increasingly takes the form of intangible assets, especially trademarked corporate brands. Further, contemporary capitalism increasingly accumulates through commodification…
Speculative Profit Fetishism in the Age of Finance Capital
- Daniel Krier
- Economics, Business
- 1 September 2009
This article tracks the rise of a new speculative form of ‘profit fetishism’ in the American stock market in the late 20th century as the control of American corporations shifted decisively from…
Atopia Awaits! A Critical Sociological Analysis of Marx’s Political Imaginary
- Mark P. Worrell, Daniel Krier
- Psychology
- 1 March 2018
Marx’s (1844) estranged labor manuscript maps processes that stultify spontaneous human relations under the division of labor in the regime of capital accumulation. For Marx, negating absolutes would…
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