We fetishize sexuality, and we fetishize women's sexuality and young girls' sexuality.
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It's made specifically for straight women to fetishize gay men.
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I'm young enough that I don't fetishize the theatrical experience.
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So I think that's why I fetishize sound so much.
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People who fetishize leadership sometimes find themselves longing for crisis.
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Even today, we fetishize the taboo nature of Nazi ideology.
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It is not to fetishize Black pain, nor to diminish it.
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As such, they're easy to fetishize, and easier still to brand.
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Mizuko becomes, for Alice, a secret; something to harbor and fetishize.
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I love his work, but I don't want to fetishize him.
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Private sector employers fetishize the college degree even where it's unnecessary.
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Wu thinks of photography as "painting with light" and doesn't fetishize authenticity.
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Everything I fetishize about shoes is the opposite of Manolo Blahnik's design.
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The new economics doesn't reject efficiency, but neither does it fetishize it.
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They both also tend to fetishize power — they like to show it off.
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Although many gay men fetishize muscle builders, others love skinny anorexic-looking twinks.
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For all his love of words, Mr. Macfarlane warns us not to fetishize.
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She finds men are either repulsed by it or begin to fetishize her.
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But the solution isn't to pander to the everyday person and to fetishize them.
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I don't want to just fetishize him but he represented that there was more.
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Activists who fetishize laws governing the internet enacted in the days of the AOL.
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It's become all too predictable, really, for photographers and editors alike to fetishize "different" models.
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I'd fetishize the shiny surfaces and delight when I drank out of a clean cup.
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My parents are the sort of god-fearing hard workers that conservatives like Vance fetishize.
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It's the same thing that happens when we fetishize the post-baby bodies of celebrities.
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I never fetishize the material, I just like it to feel right for the ideas.
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He can't betray America if, to those who fetishize the 63 million, he embodies it.
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"I don't want to fetishize it, because it's really dull and it's really dangerous," he explained.
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To fetishize children as pure, innocent beings who can receive your unvarnished wisdom does the same.
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Other nations fetishize the past, rewrite it in blood; America's genius is the facilitation of forgetfulness.
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He catalogs his own anxieties at length, sometimes to exorcise them and sometimes to fetishize them.
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To the Editor: Too many of us fetishize the artist, thus distracting from the art itself.
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As far as I can see, the main purpose of "Untogether" is to fetishize Jemima Kirke.
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They form partnerships with shows such as Maury Povich's, which fetishize doubt and the promise of discovery.
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The series also cheekily reveals how we fetishize the corpse flower through our odd, thoroughly documented interactions.
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Nineties' culture, despite how much we fetishize it in our "woke" society today, was decidedly not woke.
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What does it say about our society if we fetishize helplessness and submitting to someone else's will?
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The liberal legal imagination tends to fetishize a few famous episodes of judicial cooperation, like Brown v.
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Carr is subjected to sexist interactions that either fetishize her strict and capable persona or demean her abilities.
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But those who fetishize this methodology, as the flossing example shows, can also impair progress toward the truth.
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To the horologically minded, who fetishize engineering for engineering's sake, the tourbillon is a form of kinetic art.
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But though we may fetishize iconoclasm in our entertainment, our support is less full-throated in real life.
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So, talk a little bit about tech, because tech is one place where they sort of fetishize youth.
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We tend to fetishize and exoticize them, and the reality is that they're complex, three-dimensional, nuanced people.
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As they gain financial independence, they increasingly fetishize nostalgic and unnecessary domestic arts like knitting and making candles.
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Snyder's problem is always that his filmmaking is obsessed with bright and shiny surfaces — he can't help but fetishize the scenery, so when he's shooting beautiful young women for his movie about how fetishization (among other things) strips women of their agency, well … he can't help but fetishize them as well.
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If you present as a more feminine lesbian, you're someone to proposition, to fetishize, to sexually harass or abuse.
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It's unclear how this interpretive dance relates back to Ontell, apart from the family's urge to fetishize her creations.
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They fetishize trans women, they're dick pigs—solely dating trans girls and being really creepy about it as well.
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And, like many sexual taboos, these feelings become something to fantasize over, fetishize, exploit, or even be addicted to.
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Does it fetishize big women, or attract people who are simply looking to fulfill a fantasy with someone BBW?
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Today, venereal disease tends to proliferate in societies that fetishize sexual ignorance and treat sex as dirty and shameful.
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It also gives them the chance to fetishize and gleefully consume Emira's youth, her blackness, and her perceived coolness.
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Or I get men who grossly fetishize my body for their own pleasure, often times without asking my consent.
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Demonstrators in Hong Kong aren't waving American flags because they think we fetishize a reflexive deference to our own leaders.
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We fetishize turnips with stems still attached, twists of carrot ending in long wispy threads, cucumbers with rutted, pitted surfaces.
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Like other quests for the bottom, I began to fetishize how unhealthy that isolation was to the point of asceticism.
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"People who want to fetishize us are going to have to wait and see what we do next," he said.
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He has seen the game favor the slow and fetishize the fast; he has dropped back and he has pressed.
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Millennials in the 2010s became the vintage flannel and skinny jean-wearing hipsters who fetishize retro-tech like polaroid cameras.
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Like, there is the childhood part of me that loves Hammer horror and monster movies, but I don't fetishize bad movies.
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In fact, she seemed to fetishize the pain of her characters at the expense of treating them as real human beings.
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"I am happy, proud & healing and so I should fetishize this body and offer her THANX," Dunham said beneath the recent photo.
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"Some fetishize food and religious ritual to the point people around them cannot be open and honest regarding medical needs," Scorzoni says.
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We fetishize the idea of single female sexuality to a degree that everybody envisions single women hopping in and out of bed.
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Gender-reveal cakes, Mx. Woodstock said, are losing popularity because they fetishize babies' genitals and underscore outdated social constructs of gender roles.
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When educationalists fetishize "big data," we lose the learning and the emotional connections that are fostered when children engage in unstructured play.
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Human lactation may seem like an odd thing to fetishize, especially as cultures often desexualize breasts when they're being used for feeding infants.
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As the role of mother and nurturer becomes harder to play, given people's time and financial constraints, we fetishize it ever more fiercely.
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As for Harris, who set out to learn "why we fetishize the other," she — like the rest of us — still has no idea.
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You do have people that will fetishize you, who don't see you as a fully realized human, or something to be worked out.
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And worried by the way the word "narcissism" helps us fetishize our own empathy, as if "we" always have it and "they" don't.
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Ultimately, Space Relations is a testament to how normalized it was, and still is, to sexualize minors and fetishize rape in science fiction.
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Some fetishize "get-alongism," feting those who promise to calm the horses and restore comity in the political debate as leaders America needs.
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And worried by the way the word "narcissism"helps us fetishize our own empathy, as if "we" always have it and "they" don't.
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"The difference between my ex and some other guys who fetishize mental illness is that he wanted to make me worse," says Lisa.
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But because nobody can ever achieve perfection, we instead begin to fetishize the striving for it — spinning on bikes and slathering on lotions.
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We naturally fetishize secrets, as the opening of even banal aspects of Hillary Clinton's closed world by hackers showed; open communications preemptively neutralize them.
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But Tull isn't fond of the term "visionary art" or any other self-identifying labels he believes overly stylize and fetishize their own cultures.
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Not content to merely fetishize the tech-rich for their obscene wealth, we've apparently moved on to raising them to the level of icon.
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Even before the horror commences, Alice must navigate and command control over a space that actively seeks to fetishize her fear of physical harm.
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Maybe the strangest thing about the tank playground is that the founders relentlessly downplay any connection to the military or those who fetishize it.
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It doesn't fetishize or trivialize the complexities of Blackness but celebrates it richly in a story that is both existentially profound and proudly empathetic.
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I don't fetishize bootstrapping, but there is a lot to learn by studying how these founders built huge businesses with efficient use of capital.
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Games crafted by a largely homogenous group of white men unsurprisingly serve up overly sexualized female characters for male gamers to control and fetishize.
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The observation that women, as they achieve financial independence, "fetishize nostalgic and unnecessary domestic arts like knitting and making candles" is misguided and insulting.
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And by the end of the book, Karen is learning to relax, at least a little, and to fetishize her emotions a bit less.
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The movie does not fetishize the creative process, of seeing Dickinson (played first by Emma Bell, and later by Cynthia Nixon) compose her poetry.
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"In the past, people were much more likely either to shame or to fetishize women who wrote about sex and substances," Wilson wrote to me.
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"Wentworth" is very comfortable with its characters' dark sides and bad impulses, but unlike a lot of other shows, it doesn't secretly fetishize that brutality.
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You and I recently went to a lecture about outsider art, and then ended up talking about how much we tend to fetishize unintentional beauty.
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President Trump's fans follow him around the country like groupies, and Nancy Pelosi's boosters fetishize her funnel-neck coat as a symbol of the #resistance.
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The music they all sing along to in the van doesn't consist of protest songs or rebel anthems, but hip-hop tracks which fetishize making money.
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There, they began to discuss the lack of a good true-crime magazine—one that didn't fetishize serial killers' inherent misogyny and obsession with murdering women.
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It's very easy to fetishize the way things used to be... I wanted to be inspired by that era of filmmaking, but this movie is contemporary.
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France, despite the way Americans fetishize it, is no utopia when it comes to art; it's overly given to traditionalism and often fixated on the past.
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And similarly, I've noticed that a lot of evangelicals who become interested in art and aesthetics tend to fetishize Catholics as having all the good art.
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None of us glorify or fetishize serial killers, or see ourselves as far removed from those who inflict violence or those who are subject to it.
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As Silver chases the man she loves, Golden defies their human hosts' fickle hospitality by preying on the men and women who fetishize her exotic body.
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Just like his "Bionic Glue" (just regular glue), or the amazing "Brush-o-Matic" (just a regular lint brush), we tend to fetishize the old-made-new.
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Other filmmakers might fetishize this stripped-down tale, fascinated with the minutiae of the Lovings' world and the particulars of their lawyers' journey to the Supreme Court.
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Where as MAGA-heads want the old America of white dominance, Bush fans fetishize a more selective part of the past: the reign of the Eastern elite.
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Traister writes: We cannot afford to dismiss or fetishize or marginalize or rear back from women's anger any longer if we want this moment to be transformative.
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Without the Campus Clash tour, there's no campus clashing; without campus clashes, there's no opportunity to fetishize the "win," the moment of destruction, the annihilation of opposing ideas.
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These new works serve both as memorials and as symbolic rejections of ideologies that fetishize death and destruction while failing to understand the power and necessity of creativity.
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Streaming on: Hulu The problem with most serial killer dramas is that they frequently fetishize, however inadvertently, the crimes their killers commit — especially if the victims are women.
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Instead we have Trump, the "Access Hollywood" president, whose message is that real men fetishize weapons, glorify brutality, degrade their adversaries and grope the objects of their affection.
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Disparaging comments about my black identity floated amongst a pack of scenesters who didn't care much about black lives, but still managed to fetishize every aspect of the culture.
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The actor finds the charm in Dewey's gung-ho clumsiness, as he secretly organizes his class into a battle-of-the-bands-worthy ensemble, but he doesn't fetishize it.
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It plays into the group of pop stars, like Miley Cyrus, Madonna, and Lady Gaga, who fetishize the Western aesthetic in an effort to return to their authentic selves.
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Guards who fetishize long twos and struggle-face their way into the paint with little to show for it unnecessarily wander uphill while leaving countless points on the table.
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Both take on big, frequently discussed issues of privilege: white women who fetishize men of color, white men who form miniature cults for themselves in every corner of society.
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At a time when audiences have become hyper-focussed on the social and sexual open-mindedness of Gen Z artists, Cottrill refuses to allow anyone to fetishize her experiences.
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But American Dirt, she says, fails because of the ways it seems to fetishize its characters' otherness: "The book feels conspicuously like the work of an outsider," she writes.
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I think we fetishize this very cheesy experience of going to studio visits and the artist tells you how much they love art and how its changed their lives.
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I think in a lot of films about technology people fetishize the gadgets too much and I think to the disservice to the film and the experience of the filmgoer.
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In particular, he uses his films to explore the way their forebears treated violence, and the ways in which fans of those films would fetishize on-screen blood and guts.
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I think with every marginalized demographic, there's always a group of men who are unhealthily obsessed with us, who fetishize us, and it's not healthy and it's not a compliment.
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Try to ask her about "Mattress Performance" or other subjects that she feels "objectify or fetishize her," as the press release states, and she'll politely refer you to the Emmatron.
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For example, Marilyn Minter's high-gloss inkjet prints of women's pubic areas, framed by their manicured hands (Plush series, 21980), fetishize with all the subtlety of a porn-magazine spread.
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It's an obsession often manifested in derisive and self-loathing ways, because gay men often fetishize masculinity to the point that they look down upon and subordinate their feminine peers.
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Meanwhile, the country's aging intelligentsia continues to fetishize the intellectuals of the interwar years without scrutinizing their support for the Legionary movement and the inexcusable virulence of their anti-Semitism.
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And that's abetted by an ecosystem of Ivy League admissions committees and media outlets that fetishize kids who have escaped their seemingly doomed environment but pathologize those kids who don't.
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Other genres — rock and jazz especially — tend to fetishize their history, something reflected in the intensity with which old and out-of-print and sometimes never-released music is reissued.
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It would have been morally irresponsible to fetishize the violations against the hosts, but with the tables turned, it's possible to feel good about the humans getting their just desserts.
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As a culture, we love to fetishize tight, young vaginas, but — watch out, this might astound you — most of our cultural narratives are still written from a male point of view.
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But while it's great to see the decidedly heterosexual Josh openly acknowledge his attraction to a trans woman without shame, it's heartbreaking to see that he can't help but fetishize her.
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While other games fetishize attachments and the like—and it's totally fine if you're into that—Warzone's equipment slots are restricted to two weapons, one lethal equipment and one tactical equipment.
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Readers, hip to the conventions of storytelling — we fill our commutes with podcasts and fetishize long-form narratives — are drawn to the essay, which lends itself to the unexpected and original.
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The Happy Death Day films are pushing slashers into new stylistic territories, but they're also beginning to examine what it means to be a slasher film and to fetishize violence against women.
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"The old Freudian thinking is that people are trying to resolve trauma and that can be true but for many people, something they fetishize is something they associate with pleasure," says Brame.
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The images showcase equally delectable but unattractive foods that question how we fetishize food: What is it that compels us to photograph a beautiful pastry, versus a crumbling, poorly-decorated sheet cake?
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Lists like these — which fetishize achievement, particularly at a young age — erase the privilege and access that allow some of us to take career risks and be entrepreneurial in ways others can't.
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The fashion world, too, has begun to fetishize Ms. Wilson, documenting her red carpet pivots dressed in a succession of high-glam labels, including Oscar de la Renta, Prada and Christian Dior.
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But it is foolish to fetishize rusted-out communities that have little economic activity or to presume that government investment can create a vibrant local community as much as private enterprise can.
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There aren't too many foods that are simultaneously the basis for a juice we give to children, a dish we fetishize on a national holiday, and the antidote for a really painful illness.
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There are now dozens of rankings, reflecting both the way we've come to fetishize data and the anxiety that so many Americans rightly feel about wringing the most from an increasingly costly investment.
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We fetishize part-time pugilists in the West across a political spectrum—Reid, McCain, Trudeau—because fighting symbolizes something that playing pick-up basketball or jogging or eating overcooked steak with ketchup doesn't.
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And his films certainly seem to offer some hints in that direction: They frequently fetishize service members and military hardware, and they tend to portray governments and bureaucracy as ineffectual, self-interested, and incompetent.
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It's like voluntourism, except instead of fetishizing your own compassion, third-world people and your ability to help them, you fetishize valuing intellectualism, "thought leaders" and your ability to breathe the same rarefied air.
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"Men would see colored women as objects and fetishize you," she explains, an issue tackled in her earlier work Sometimes reluctantly I reflect on all the times I let my pussy to be colonised.
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Though Imanuel was a fluid, nimble rapper, the song didn't fetishize black culture as much as it frolicked within an outlandish, sex-and-violence-obsessed version of it; it ended up feeling like mockery.
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"People fetishize In-N-Out, and it's cool to know the brand and doubly cool to know its secret menu," Culinary Institute of America associate professor and food anthropoligist Willa Zhen told QSR magazine.
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"But the people who brought you 10 Benghazi investigations and who continue to fetishize Uranium One and the Clinton email server have no standing to criticize Adam Schiff or anyone else doing real oversight," he added.
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There have always been white people like Trump who fetishize black culture — thrill seekers who want to dip their toes into what they view as exotic, but also want to stay dry and removed from it.
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Democrats, even as we zealously pursue the investigations and oversight that this president so richly deserves, should not fetishize Russian collusion in the way that Republicans have turned Benghazi, Uranium One and "But her emails" into catechism.
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"Earthquake Bird" is well shot and well acted, and with its attention to novelistic detail it does more than give lip service to themes of sexuality, jealousy and the way different cultures categorize and fetishize each other.
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Best known as the lead character's father on Justified, the gruff old guy makes a dark mirror for Jimmy, who at times seems to fetishize his own independence, to the detriment of his friends and now ex-girlfriend.
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So Fincher very slowly and very deliberately begins to reveal Kevin to us, via shots that allow us to catch glimpses of him, but which never fetishize his suffering or try to make it seem mysterious or creepy.
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Other sports may fetishize innovation and change — set shot to jump shot to windmill slam dunk; single-wing to shotgun to West Coast offense — but the fight world mostly tries not to forget what it knew in bygone days.
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Nineteenth-century groups of intellectuals in both Europe and America, like the German Romantics and the American Transcendentalists (who tended to fetishize "exoticism" and Eastern "mysticism," in contrast to decrepit European "civilization"), developed an interest in all things Indian.
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This time, Refn fetishizes femininity the way his films Drive and Only God Forgives fetishize masculinity From the very beginning of Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon, the protagonist, Jesse (Elle Fanning) is willing to sell herself to whoever's buying.
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Academics write on the growth of the Founding Father biographical genre in our time; the rule for any new writer should be that if you want a Pulitzer and a best-seller you must find a Founding Father and fetishize him.
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It goes without saying that eating disorders are widespread across the entire music industry, affecting people of all gender expressions, but the way in which alternative music is often packaged to fetishize thinness and poor mental health is incredibly damaging.
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This liberalism will neither play down nor fetishize identity grievances, but look instead for a common and generous language to build on who we are more broadly, and to conceive more boldly what we might be able to accomplish in concert.
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It will also go down as one of the most self-consciously Intense-with-a-capital-"I" movies in recent memory, a visually gorgeous but heavy-handed study of extreme masculinity and revenge told by a filmmaker with a tendency to fetishize both.
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That's because it touches on one of the core questions in that debate: how useful is it to violently resist an enemy whose group is probably better at violence than you are, because they fetishize it, whereas you will only fight when pressed?
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Ethan, who prefers to go by his first name in fear of retaliation, took advantage of these stereotypes by using his own youthful appearance and the ultra-feminization of the Snapchat filter in order to expose someone who might fetishize these features.
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It's hard to know why Toyota would create a cartoon girl that personifies the Prius's rear lights and give her a costume that draws attention to her own rear, unless the company is trying to appeal to people who fetishize underage girls.
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Worse, when we fetishize certain accents and disdain others, it can lead to real discrimination in job interviews, performance evaluations and access to housing, to name just a few of the areas where having or not having a certain accent has profound consequences.
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The first is an aesthetic question: Does this book fetishize and glory in the trauma of its characters in ways that objectify them, and is that objectification what always follows when people write about marginalized groups to which they do not belong?
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Home is not a beloved memory or something to yearn for and fetishize, but merely a matter of circumstance: a piece of land (sometimes large, but usually small) on which one eats and sleeps, sometimes for a lifetime, and sometimes for a day.
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"My problem with a lot of caucasian men who fetishize men of color is that they will consider us as a one night stand or as a hookup, but they won't actually consider us as potential candidates for a longterm relationship," Bish said.
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With The Florida Project, which focuses on the "invisible homeless" who live week-to-week in that strip of cheap motels, he's produced a film that manages to perfectly evoke our post-Trump times, even as it refuses to fetishize the white working class.
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And perhaps, much like the Washington Beltway columnists and talking heads who fetishize Vladimir Putin's "strength" and "leadership" as a means of expressing their disappointment with President Obama, perhaps Dugin is projecting onto Trump what he had hoped to see from Putin but never got.
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While these portraits may at first seem to reaffirm and almost fetishize material forms of glamor — designer logos, decadent duds, and museum-worthy accessories—the fact of Turner's age and faith serves to complicate the matter, as do the subtle imperfections blessing every single piece.
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But although Moore's body in that photo was indeed bigger — the round belly, full breasts and solid thighs that come with pregnancy — it was still pretty perfect, beautifully lit, and presented in a way that ultimately served not just to normalize but to fetishize.
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The problem is people who talk about the Holocaust and then fetishize it into some kind of poetic event that transcends all history, in which case you can't trace any lessons, compare it to other genocides or prevent future ones because it is outside of history.
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I'm happy to see her on the New York Times op-ed page because she is an adamant voice for the world most others either ignore or fetishize, and Hunger shines when she focuses on the conditions, whether systemic or personal, that have created that world.
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We fetishize machine and machine production and see it as quintessentially modern — the kinds of improvements in production and efficiency that you see from hooking up a cotton spindle to a set of pulleys, which are in turn pulled by a water wheel or steam engine.
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When it happens at night, sometimes, predatory men want to aggressively hit on me or follow me when they think I'm a girl, fuck with me or hurt me because they think I'm a gay man, or fetishize or chase me when they "discover" I am trans.
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Or whether it's the result — whether the development is the result of the way fashion media and the fashion industry has tended to fetishize and dollarize and romanticize and favor particular looks, to exclude lots and lots of body types and people from its pages, from its worldview.
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" According to Kühne, there are still some Germans who fetishize war history and military culture—notably the far-right groups that have recently been growing in size—"but it's a very small minority... and this group of people interested in the history and ephemera is much smaller than what's in America.
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In terms of its construction in the US, racialized blackness is meant to function as a reduction, a simplification, that is more about an ideological idea of black people as 'social symbolism' (something to revile, pity, fetishize, or project sentiment onto), rather than as a reflection of the complexity of our humanity.
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In the damp sick In the dough In the chewed on chew of faces of expensive car owner faces chewed ons of the world: I do not fetishize the truth I poke around Holding my bland sandwich in my non-dominant hand, I think what could be worse, I think what could be as bad?
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The film, which is based on a novel by Susanna Jones, "is well shot and well acted, and with its attention to novelistic detail it does more than give lip service to themes of sexuality, jealousy and the way different cultures categorize and fetishize each other," Glenn Kenny wrote in his New York Times review.
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McGowan spends most of the conversation veering away from Colbert's questions to talk instead about how suits are so unpleasant to wear that they torture people into acting terribly but if you really think about it no one has to wear them, and how Canadian culture doesn't fetishize violence the way American culture does.
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Rather than depicting the violence inherent in this history in order to motivate and educate her audience, as Kara Walker and Hank Willis Thomas do, Adams has chosen to walk a thin, intersectional line, opting not to fetishize or traumatize black bodies, but instead focus on the role of white Baltimoreans in an ongoing system of oppression.
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" Twitter was filled with appreciative messages about being affected by the column, but then there were also these: "Maybe normal people are just fed up with journalists who fetishize access and revise someone's record to whitewash them because they were personally nice to them in line once at Wendy's while they were waiting for a Frosty.
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His images of naked men, including self-portraits, do not emphasize or fetishize the erotic but they do not shy away from it either; instead, Skolnick offers a frisson of the sexual (if a viewer really wants it) naturally embedded in the young artist's dutiful draftsmanship, which has found its groove in recent years, even as he has sharpened his thematic focus.
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"Some of the most thrilling moments on the stage are the ones where you can see that the director has really grappled with the idea of violence and has chosen not to fetishize it or to beautify it, but has presented it as something that the audience can't look away from — that the audience is made to look," she said.
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It starts like a (Random Access?) memory of the glitzy disco that Daft Punk have come to fetishize over the course of their career, but as they bring their sunny vocoder trills from behind the clouds, the record ends in an electro-chorale—a reminder that technology's embrace need not necessarily be cold, and that, of course, the robots were human after all.
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" She's opening up a debate about her identity that she may not win—as the Daily Caller's Joe Simonson wrote on Twitter, "The reason why Warren's team thought this DNA test was a good idea is because her team are a bunch of over-educated liberals who fetishize minority status and think having *any* percentage of Native blood is some sort of divine mark.
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So unquestioningly do the women, in their earlier years, enjoy "the golden good fortune of being chosen" and so subtly do all the characters undervalue Christine's viable career as a visual artist even as they fetishize Alex's neglected writing that one worries the narrative and the author are doing the same — until it becomes clear that these are the very complacencies Hadley is here to dismantle.
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But it's even easier to forget that these are issues faced by pop music artists everywhere -- including America and the UK. The responsible way to talk about K-Pop is not to fetishize or condescend to it, but to acknowledge that Korean pop music shares the positive and negative traits -- and the artistic depth and diversity -- common to every creative industry around the world.
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Maybe you are intrigued, or you are questioning your own gender identity, or you hate me, or you bullied me, or you want to fetishize me, but you want to read this, or not, or now you're already this far into it, or you cannot escape the pull of anaphora, or you don't even know what that is, and/or what I am, and/or what I am trying to write about.
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" On an anecdotal level, it became personally clear to me that many people feel strongly about the moral value of books as physical objects after I, a book critic and reporter who covers the publishing industry, aggregated an essay by professor Hannah McGregor arguing that it's a little weird how we all fetishize books, and some readers kindly advised me to "please fucking die" because "this is anti-intellectualism, you stupid fucking bitch.
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This isn't far from what Theodor Adorno meant when he talked about the "fetish-character" in music, the way that scraps and phrases of great classical pieces are isolated from their context in the work itself, atomized and commodified, so that they can come to stand for "high culture," a chimera that in practice wasn't much more than a crutch for the ego, a way of looking down at other people who don't fetishize the grand signifiers of art.
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