The television programme has turned arts and antiquities into crude commodity fetishism. |
He is for photography when it attacks the fetishism of the art object, but against it when it celebrates industrial production. |
Our consumer society subjects many people's lives to the fetishism of the brand and the product. |
Exclusively heterosexual, his imagery shows no sign of fetishism or sadomasochism, no unseemly interest in children. |
Put simply, fetishism is when some body part or inorganic object is either needed to achieve the sexual aim or replaces it altogether. |
No such distinction exists in fetishism, where object and spirit are one and the same, fused in an unmediated anti-symbolic relationship. |