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The cultural critics Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin examined and described the fetishes and fetishism of art, by means of which "artistic" commodities are produced for sale in the market, and how commodification determines and establishes the value of the artistic commodities (goods and services) derived from legitimate Art; for example, the ...
Polanyi's insight follows the Marxian notions of "commodification" and "Commodity fetishism." [3] Fetishism in anthropology refers to the primitive belief that godly powers can inhere in inanimate things, e.g., in totems. Marx uses this concept to describe "commodity fetishism." For Marx, "a commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious ...
A fetish is an object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular, a human-made object that has power over others. Essentially, fetishism is the attribution of inherent non-material value, or powers, to an object. Talismans and amulets are related. Fetishes are often used in spiritual or religious context.
Reification is conceptually related to, but different from Marx's theory of alienation and theory of commodity fetishism; alienation is the general condition of human estrangement; reification is a specific form of alienation; and commodity fetishism is a specific form of reification. [1]
The reifying effects of universalised trade in commodities, involving a process Marx calls "commodity fetishism", [22] mean that social relations become expressed as relations between things; [23] for example, price relations.
I reached out to a sex therapist and a non-monogamy educator to talk all things kink vs. fetish, in case you want to explore one—or both—in the bedroom. (Because, spoiler alert, they're not ...
The critique of the spectacle is a development and application of Karl Marx's concept of fetishism of commodities, reification and alienation, [3] and the way it was reprised by György Lukács in 1923. In the society of the spectacle, commodities rule the workers and consumers, instead of being ruled by them; in this way, individuals become ...
Marx extensively criticized the social impact of commodification under the name commodity fetishism and alienation. [17] Prior to being turned into a commodity, an object has a "specific individual use value". [18] After becoming a commodity, that same object has a different value: the amount for which it can be exchanged for another commodity ...