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Unchained Commodities
Capitalism, animal rights, hegemony, and cognitive dissonance
Happy new year!
Hello to anyone still around reading my work. Thanks for being here and for supporting me. Until this week, I hadn’t published on Medium or Substack in nearly a month. As I mentioned earlier this year, I’ve been upgrading my undergraduate degree in order to pursue a post-graduate education. I’ve been taking Writing and Rhetoric courses, and I am absolutely loving them.
That said, my academic reading and writing keeps me quite busy, so I haven’t had much time to produce my usual content. This article (as well as part two, which I will publish soon) is definitely not about directly neurodiversity and parenting.
However, if you’re interested in learning about the history, philosophies, and theories which attempt to explain why things are the way they are (and I hope you are interested in those things, because they are oh, so important!), then you may enjoy this further exploration of animal rights, capitalism, and hegemony.
Chained commodities
When we think of production, we tend to think of it as an independent mechanism, one isolated from social determinants and intersections such as gender, race, technology, or the environment. In his book…