commodified
Speech parts
1. commodified - Adjective
2. commodified - Verb
Meaning
commodified (not comparable)
Subjected to commodification.
commodified
simple past and past participle of commodify
Examples
The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a bunch of phonies, and I didn't really want to have anything to do with it. I guess I did installations, in a funny way, because they couldn't be commodified.
I'm not interested in being commodified. I'm not into being sold. I'm not a slave.
Once the children have been commodified, Swift's rhetoric can easily turn "people into animals, then meat, and from meat, logically, into tonnage worth a price per pound".
But because A&F's vision is so constructed and commodified (and because what A&F sells is not so much manhood but perennial ), there is also something oddly emasculating about it.
Karl Marx described capitalist society as infringing on individual autonomy because it is based on a materialistic and commodified concept of the body and its liberty (i.e. as something that is sold, rented, or alienated in a class society ).
The most significant point is that patent and copyright laws support the expansion of the range of creative human activities that can be commodified.