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Submitting to objects: animism, fetishism, and the cultural foundations of capitalism

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Copyright Year	2014
Description	This chapter discusses how the specifi c way in which “post-Enlightenment” humans tend to relate to material objects is a fundamental aspect of modern capitalism.1 The aim is to reconnect the discourse on “fetishism”, the main thrust of which has become largely restricted to exploring personal phenomenologies of aesthetic or sensuous experience (cf. Apter & Pietz 1993; Spyer 1998; Mitchell 2005; Latour 2010),2 to a general critique of global capitalist relations. The ambition here is not to attempt to review the voluminous discourses on fetishism, animism, epistemology, magic, materiality, technology, or consumption, but to bring together insights from these various topics to suggest new ways of illuminating some cultural dimensions of modernity and capitalism. More specifi cally, the goal is to combine some relevant aspects of culture theory with perspectives from political economy, world-system analysis and ecological economics in order to “defamiliarize” (Marcus & Fischer 1986) our everyday understanding of technology. Empirically, the discussion ranges from early British textile factories and the Luddite movement to indigenous Amazonian animism and ancient Andean ritual. Book Name: The Handbook of Contemporary Animism
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Ending Page	267
Page Count	16
Starting Page	252
DOI	10.4324/9781315728964-32
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2014-09-11
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Book Name: The Handbook of Contemporary Animism Cultural Studies Fetishism Cultural Discourses Specifi Discusses Amazonian Animism Modern Capitalism.1
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter

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