1. There are a family of totalizing criticisms of today's places as commodified, reified, simulacral, and the like.
2. What is commodification?
3. What is wrong with commodification?
4. Bad presuppositions of the commodification critique.
5. No place is totally commodified.
6. A general argument against all totalizing criticisms.
7. We seem empirically caught between universal flows and particular loyalties.
8. Underlying the empirical reality of commodification is the distinction between systems and places.
9. Commodification and systemic flows.

Index
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(c) David Kolb, 1 August 2001