I've said this a lot but I'm going to say it again This is like the textbook definition of commodity fetishismhttps://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1244691048237895680 …
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I hardly think about creators but I'd hardly call it a fetish. Even so I'm almost always on their side. There's more going on here.
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"Fetishism" isn't used in the sexual sense here, it means confusing things for people (a "fetish" as in a religion icon, an inanimate object you believe is inhabited by a spirit)
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Ah, apologies for my less-than-articulate tweet! To be clear, I absolutely agree with you. I was thinking about how the value of objects is confused with the value of the people who create them. My love of objects' histories is about the story of the humans who make them...
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... so I was pondering the distinction between that and fetishization, where the object eclipses the humans entirely!
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