1-20 of 72 Search Results for

fetishism

Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account

Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
Close Modal
Sort by
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 371–390.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Mike Gane Baudrillard's theories developed dramatically over his intellectual career of forty years, and throughout these years he contributed considerably to the thematic of cultural fetishism. Consistent with his conception of the consumer society, he developed the notion of sign-fetishism...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 98–117.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., birds, stones, trees” (ibid.: 85). The distinction between animism and fetishism is conceptually useful in examining the relationship of humans to the outside environment. Modern epistemology recognized that we are directed by things, but reduced the alien and ancestral spirits and took things...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 51–74.
Published: 01 March 2005
... specific features of communicative capitalism in light of the fantasies animating them. The fantasy of abundance leads to a shift in the basic unit of communication from the message to the contribution. The fantasy of activity or participation is materialized through technology fetishism. The fantasy...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 60–74.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., or more accurately precede , familiar cultural-political binaries of authentic and inauthentic, depth and surface, knowledge and illusion, truth and lies, belief and fetishism, human and nonhuman, natural and synthetic. These other facets include dynamics of the technics of imagination...
FIGURES | View All (5)
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 325–338.
Published: 01 November 2011
..., by way of a consideration of Baudrillard's “patasociology,” which also serves to situate Baudrillard in his own historical context. The third essay, by Mike Gane, reads Baudrillard's long-standing engagement with the notion of fetishism right up to the “radical fetishism” of integral reality, thus...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 July 2009
... to Media Whores Online. Figure 3. Satirical version of the USS Lincoln images. Publication attributed to Media Whores Online. However, having already indicated how the act of consumption might contribute to the auratic moment of the fetish, and having noted that the image of the Bush doll...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 299–324.
Published: 01 November 2009
... reminds us, that in psychoanalysis, fetishism disavowal deals with the question of sexual difference. For Rose's critique of early film theory on the question of disavowal see “The Cinematic Apparatus – Problems in Current Theory” ( Rose 1986a ). For Žižek's elaboration on the Lacanian “logics...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 296–300.
Published: 01 July 2015
... of the rentiers and the global elite, this diagnosis seems accurate when we understand masochism as the pathology that uses fetishes and self-harming techniques to defer pleasure to the last possible moment. The last possible moment of course is the turning point, a kind of redemption when capitalism suddenly...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 255–258.
Published: 01 July 2006
... critique” (p. 197). But why not simply and directly perform bad Marxism to show us how it's done? As Spivak correctly emphasizes, Marx wrote Capital as a tool for under standing social relations under capitalism, as an x-ray machine, to see through the trick of commodity fetishism (quoted by Hutnyk, p...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 25–46.
Published: 01 March 2008
...-hewn faces and facets to a camera that registers every vein and detail as well as the marks of cutting and sawing still freshly present on their surfaces and edges (Figure 5) . This marble is the raw and fully fetishized material of fine art, evidence of a long tradition of monumental building...
FIGURES | View All (5)
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 184–200.
Published: 01 July 2015
... environment” (353) extends Butler’s framing around visibility. Katz suggests that the ever-present and visible “muscular state” obscures some social relations and denies others. She explains the placement of military personnel as a spatial fetish that manipulates what is seen and not seen. She suggests...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2018
... must fear as the “terrorist” threat. And so forth and so on. As the logic goes—from the perspective of the Right, of course—the problem is not the system itself but the (image of) the false enemy. The figure of the enemy is surfaced as a fetish figure to evade or disavow the existing problems...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (1): 148–158.
Published: 01 March 2023
... with gusto but soon could only read through parted fingers. At first, I placed this book on a literary shelf alongside the Marquis de Sade for its fetishization of mastery over flesh and consumption, its dirty, flayed, defiled, and scarified bodies—but mostly for its insistence that to live as an animal...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (2): 199–228.
Published: 01 July 2009
... subsumed under, and hence an effect of, capital. It is therefore peculiar that Dean, in light of her previous lucid description of technological fetishism covering up a more fundamental lack, eventually claims that “Technologies should be politicized . They should be made to represent something beyond...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 132–134.
Published: 01 March 2017
...” or an apology for totalitarianism. By contrast, the oft-celebrated category of autonomy is revealed to be a stark and abject product of precarious circumstances; “the repudiation of dependence is a reaction to the loss of dependable others. Rather than an achievement, independence is a fetish barely holding...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 394–396.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., which crystallizes—and is thus expressed—as specific quantities of risk in the securities they hedge. Importantly, Ascher argues that the social relations of risk bound up in securities come to be hidden: a kind of fetishism takes place whereby risk’s social character is obscured by its reification...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 300–319.
Published: 01 November 2014
... itself within the contemporary cultural condition. First, as Adorno claims, culture has not freed itself from, but rather it continues to suppress, its own primitiveness, which finds its fetishized expression increasingly embedded in the 24/7 production cycles that dictate late capitalism’s mechanisms...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 347–361.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., “Such responses perhaps reflect the degree to which this film series, and the consumption experience it offers, have become fetishized cultural objects for many dedicated fans, inviting the classic Marxist analysis that commodity fetishism obscures awareness of exploitative capitalist labour processes” (60...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 391–394.
Published: 01 November 2006
..., grossly economic logics” at work (p. 34), but they also stress the imperatives of image-war and its relation to a new round of primitive capital accumulation. The second chapter critiques the commodity determinism of the “blood for oil” account. Oil, they argue, is a commodity fetish that masks...
Journal Article
Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 139–143.
Published: 01 March 2015
... and styles that temporarily overcome the limitations of a trying, tough, or grim reality” (34). Integral to the artist’s ability to continue to overcome such limitations has been his ongoing involvement in queercore, fetish, and body modification subcultures, which chapters like “Sex with Ron...
FIGURES