Epistemological and critical approaches to the capitalist system and aims to study the bearing of capitalism on different levels, the first of which pertains to cultural forms: such as art, modernity, production, spectacle, body, and the cultural production. While the second involves various practices: consumption, work, pleasure, comfort, desire, leisure time, sports, happiness, and prayer. It further scrutinizes the relationship of both - forms and practices - with commodities and production. This will be done through reviewing founding texts of each of the following major theorists: Marx, Baudrillard, Adorno, Benjamin, Lefebvre, Bourdieu, De Certeau, Safadie, Hockheimer, Davis, Mouffe and others
