My research concerns the cultural politics of the commodity form. I study the reproduction of capitalist relations and their contestation in the sphere of the symbolic. My research is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing on political economy, philosophy, sociology and cultural studies, and in particular critical theory, autonomism and the work of Fredric Jameson. This research encompasses:
Processes of commodification, expropriation, accumulation by dispossession; contestations over the commons;
The expansion of the commodity form as a logic of social organisation and its contestation;
Capitalist abstraction and the dialectics of the commodity form;
Cultural struggles over the subsumption of social relations under capital and processes of capitalist socialisation;
Contestations in the discursive and symblic sphere about what should and should not constitute a commodity, and what conceiving of life in terms of the commodity form entails.
