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Thana-Capitalism and the Sense of Reality: Lessons Unlearned

Thana-Capitalism and the Sense of Reality: Lessons Unlearned

Maximiliano Emanuel Korstanje
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781522528173|ISBN10: 1522528172|EISBN13: 9781522528180
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2817-3.ch001
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Korstanje, Maximiliano Emanuel. "Thana-Capitalism and the Sense of Reality: Lessons Unlearned." Global Perspectives on Human Migration, Asylum, and Security, edited by Christina M. Akrivopoulou, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 1-20. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2817-3.ch001

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Korstanje, M. E. (2018). Thana-Capitalism and the Sense of Reality: Lessons Unlearned. In C. Akrivopoulou (Ed.), Global Perspectives on Human Migration, Asylum, and Security (pp. 1-20). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2817-3.ch001

Chicago

Korstanje, Maximiliano Emanuel. "Thana-Capitalism and the Sense of Reality: Lessons Unlearned." In Global Perspectives on Human Migration, Asylum, and Security, edited by Christina M. Akrivopoulou, 1-20. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2817-3.ch001

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Abstract

Based on the contributions of Jean Baudrillard, a French well known philosopher who exerted a radical criticism to the mass-media and its position respecting to migration and terrorism, Korstanje alluded to a neologism, “Thana-Capitalism”, which situates as a new stage of production where the suffering of others is the main commodity exchanged among classes. In times of Thana Capitalism, though we horrify from refugees and their miseries or the latest terrorist blow in CNN, we have doing nothing to change reality. This begs an interesting question, how does perception form in times of thana capitalism? what is the concept of reality in the age of pseudo-reality? is the media and the spectacle of disasters disorganizing social ties? This chapter centers on the role of reality in times where others` death crystalized as a criterion of consumption.

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