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A 5 page paper which examines the following statement made by T.J. Clark: “the city is the sign of capital: it is there one can see commodity take on flesh.” Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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As societies become more stable and more safe the people within the society become more and more obsessed, it seems, with things in general. In these regards we see how
T.J. Clark wrote, "the city is the sign of capital: it is there one can see commodity take on flesh." This quote, provided by the student requesting this essay, is
the topic under discussion. The paper looks at this quote, defining what Clark meant. T.J. Clark and Commodity When we speak of the word commodity we see how
one author notes that "The emergence of popular or mass culture, in its modern sense, can also be traced to the second half of the nineteenth century. An important factor
behind the growth of popular culture was the expansion of the commodity economy, exemplified in the establishment of department stores" (Art and Imaging the Popular, 2004). It was the department
story that was solely based on selling mass produced products. It depended on the economy of scale for its success. And, "It was able to capitalize on the emergence of
a new class of employees-indeed, it helped to create this class-who used culture to define their social identity and status" (Art and Imaging the Popular, 2004). This particular author brings
Clark into the discussion, stating that, "Clark examines the nexus between social class and cultural identity to argue that the popular was the name given to the new social classes...produced
by capitalism during the second half of the nineteenth century. This class did not fit into the traditional classification of owners or workers, bourgeoisie or proletariat, but represented lower white-collar
employees-shop assistants, clerks, accountants, cashiers, petty bureaucrats, bank tellers, primary-school teachers, etc.-who strictly speaking were not members of the bourgeoisie, since they did not own property or capital, yet they
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