{"id":2135,"date":"2015-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2023\/09\/06\/to-commodify-or-not-to-commodify-that-is-not-the-question\/"},"modified":"2015-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"to-commodify-or-not-to-commodify-that-is-not-the-question-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2015\/01\/12\/to-commodify-or-not-to-commodify-that-is-not-the-question-2\/","title":{"rendered":"To Commodify or Not to Commodify? That is NOT the Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation into the reciprocal roles of power and language in determining a fair agreement in \u201ccommodified sexuality\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Aims<br \/>\nIs \u2018commodified sexuality\u2019 an accurate description of modern day prostitution?  To discuss whether the implications of \u2018objectification\u2019 are metaphysically possible when one sells their sexual services for a price To analyse the power strategies present within sex work from environment to language Determine which effect of power is the most dangerous to the sex worker.<\/p>\n<p>Project Outline<br \/>\nIdentify confusions within the terms of commodity and commodification Emphasize that sex work involves labour, not the mere \u2018selling of one\u2019s body\u2019 Identify a separation of a sex worker\u2019s sexuality occurs through use of Karl Marx\u2019s alienation Stress the limits of consent using Immanuel Kant Argue that the most powerful power structure is utilised without conscious thought: language <\/p>\n<p>Philosophers &amp; Key Texts<br \/>\nMartha Nussbaum: Sex &amp; Social Justice (1999)<br \/>\n Sexual Objectification  <\/p>\n<p>Karl Marx: Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 1843-44, Vol. 3 (2005) &amp; Capital (1961)<br \/>\n Alienated Labour  <\/p>\n<p>Immanuel Kant: Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (2007)<br \/>\n Autonomy<br \/>\n Categorical Imperative<br \/>\n Sexual Contract of Marriage  <\/p>\n<p>J\u00fcrgen Habermas: The Theory of Communicative Action (1981)<br \/>\n Ideal Speech Arrangement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosanna F. Bellini, 2015, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233,22,123],"tags":[231,237,147],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-233","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-objectification","tag-prostitution","tag-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}