Commodification of the Body as the Phenomenon of Contemporary Culture

Student: Zavialova Irina

Educational Programme: Visual Culture (Master)

Final Grade: 7

Year of Graduation: 2019

Commodification of the body in the context of modern culture attracts the attention of researchers from various fields of knowledge. Processes such as the secularization of social life, the rapid development of technology and medicine, and the spread of the capitalist economy to all spheres of an individual’s life have had a significant impact on the transformation of the understanding of the body. Despite the fact that the commodification of the body is a natural stage in the development of modern society, it entails many negative consequences - ethical, legal and social. This study is dedicated to the identification of symptoms of commodification of the body in modern culture and the analysis of the negative consequences of this process.

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