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How To Use Fetishism In A Sentence

  • Films advocating reforms and criticizing money fetishism amid increasing commercialization in the Chinese society also formed a large proportion of the entries.
  • Yet this scenario of male sadism and necrophiliac fetishism, this duality of adoration and humiliation does not feel quite right.
  • What the officials of these states ignore is that the age of fetishism is over, and importing military hardware increases dependence.
  • The novel is a grotesque exploration of fetishism which antedates Freud.
  • Shots of the dead animal being prepared for its "extended existence" indicate the lead character's fetishism of a "dead" past.
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  • Emerging economies are still prey to what Harvard's Dani Rodrik has called " export fetishism
  • The most frequent metaphorical vehicle used in representing fetishism is the image of the object that comes to life.
  • The common centre and starting-point of fetishism, polytheism, and monotheism on this view (the 'dispersive' view) of the evolution of religion lies in the heart of man, in a consciousness, originally vague in the extreme, of the personality and superiority to man of the being or object worshipped. Recent Developments in European Thought
  • Exclusively heterosexual, his imagery shows no sign of fetishism or sadomasochism, no unseemly interest in children.
  • The French psychologist Alfred Binet adapted de Brosses's religious fetishism to sexual pathology in 1887.
  • Ms. Redgrave has the funniest monologue with her genteel tale of chiropody and fetishism, "Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet. A Nice Coopa Tea With Alan Bennett
  • In commodity fetishism, people misrecognize the qualities of human relationships as qualities residing in objects themselves, so that the objects — commodities — take on “a life of their own”; instead of real relationships with people, we start to have false relationships with things. The anxiety of tapering, and some links at Hugo Schwyzer
  • This attitude also led to the Negrophile movements in Paris which used signs and objects of fetishism and primitivism to imply modernity.
  • This fetishism about scenic detail develops in the 1830s and 1840s.
  • All these evoke the requisite themes of pain, humiliation, bondage and fetishism.
  • Our consumer society subjects many people's lives to the fetishism of the brand and the product.
  • Sadism and masochism, like fetishism, annex pleasure to established systems of desire.
  • The fetishism of facts has, as the author argues, led history to 'lose sight of its origins in the literary imagination'.
  • It deals frankly, openly, and graphically with sexual perversity and fetishism.
  • The new escape does not have to come from a restrictive creative culture — where we go on making movies like we did in the past but simply snip out troubling pieces (although one big piece I would be happy to see snipped is the emerging genre of autopsy-fetishism on TV and cinema; it is really, really distasteful now, more than ever). Lessons from Indian Cinema | PopPolitics.com
  • He used the traders' accounts of contemporary "primitivism" to interpret the objects from Egyptian antiquity and, through historical analogy, established the concept of a universal primitive fetishism.
  • Bunuel took tales of heated love and thwarted desire and turned them into personal statements about obsession, repression, bourgeois propriety, Catholicism, and fetishism.
  • It deals frankly, openly, and graphically with sexual perversity and fetishism.
  • In modern anthropology, fetishism, like animism and totemism, tends to be disfavoured as a universalistic principle.
  • His portrayal of sexuality had broadened to include same sex and multiple-partner relationships, masturbation, and various forms of fetishism.
  • Transsexuals, meanwhile, want the diagnoses of "gender identity disorder" and "transvestic fetishism" that the new DSM is expected to promulgate changed to be more respectful and less judgmental.
  • You can sing it handcuffed to a pole while male dancers pretend to spank your bum if you want, but there's no getting around the fact that S&M is every bit as sexy as you might expect for a song about fetishism written by committee of five people – two of whom were previously responsible for the masterpiece of slow-burning eroticism that was S Club 7's S Club Party. Rihanna at the O2 Arena – review
  • And here, revealed in all its splendour, is the concept that lies at the rotting heart of social relations under capitalism -- commodity fetishism. Archive 2009-11-01
  • His obsessive fetishism regarding the JFK case, however, weakens the argument.
  • In gaming, design and creativity often wither on the vine because of the industry's technology fetishism.
  • Consensual torture fetishism is entirely different than the hideous Cheney fanaticism the GOP finds itself mired in every Monday night with their hero Jack Bauer. Stop The Torture | ATTACKERMAN
  • The television programme has turned arts and antiquities into crude commodity fetishism.
  • What the officials of these states ignore is that the age of fetishism is over, and importing military hardware increases dependence.
  • This study had been commenced in his own time by de Brosses, the inventor of the term fetishism, and pronounced by competent modern authorities to have been a powerful and original thinker upon the facts of the infancy of civilization. Voltaire
  • Changes in sexual behavior, though uncommon, have been seen in patients with epilepsy, including hypersexuality, pansexuality, erotomania, sexual paranoia, exhibitionism, and fetishism.
  • The corrosiveness of commodity fetishism, the breakout of collective life, and the loss of the cultural critic and spiritual precursor, all of these become new crisis of postmodernism.
  • No such distinction exists in fetishism, where object and spirit are one and the same, fused in an unmediated anti-symbolic relationship.
  • The theme is fetishism, but the treatment is anything but salacious.
  • The artist's subjects - taken mainly from the city's streetlife and bohemian subculture - included portraits and scenes of sexual violence and deviation (particularly shoe fetishism).
  • From first rude frame to lascivious last, Grindhouse guns to be the last word in fanboy fetishism," writes Nathan Lee in the Voice. GreenCine Daily: Grindhouse, 4/4.
  • He illustrates fetishism with a story of "two Malay women in Keeling Island who held a wooden spoon dressed in clothes like a doll ... this spoon danced about convulsively like a table or a hat at a modern spirit-seance."
  • Buddhism, however, on the 'dispersive' view of the evolution of religion, is not the only radiation from the common centre, of which we have to take account, in addition to fetishism, polytheism, and monotheism. Recent Developments in European Thought
  • Their religion, which exhibits features of animism, animalism, anthropomorphism, nature-worship, fetishism, ancestor-worship is under the control, guidance and supervision of the village.
  • Put simply, fetishism is when some body part or inorganic object (here an image) is either needed to achieve the sexual aim or replaces it altogether.
  • His claim that ‘the fetishism of social relations becomes an established fact’ in a monetized society remains underelaborated.
  • Sadism and masochism, like fetishism, annex pleasure to established systems of desire.
  • As I will argue here, the representation of fetishism in her writing exists in a paradoxical relationship with the fetishism of her theory of representation.
  • The movie is a fabulously funny exploration of fetishism, a look at the ever-more-insane ways people find to "get off."
  • He held that West African fetishism was an example of the earliest stage in the universal progression of social development.
  • Unlike fetishism, say, or scopophilia, the unappeasable, primitive drives that figure in Antoni's work don't readily lend themselves to sophisticated, daring imagery, the stuff of art.
  • Using the same metaphor, Comte represents fetishism as if the material world were alive in every tree and rock.
  • Bella's fixation on Edward's stoniness looks a lot like a kind of fetishism. Archive 2008-12-01
  • Feminist film critics have seen this phenomenon (clinically known as fetishism) operating in the cinema; the camera fetishizes the female form.
  • The colors are extremely vivid and work to amplify what at first glance appears to be an unruly fetishism of the exotic object.
  • Tylor is one of the first to argue that the Comian view of fetishism is oversimplified and that Africans worshiped the spirit that resided in the object, rather than the object itself.
  • John Kay in the Financial Times Wednesday makes an excellent observation: "Manufacturing fetishism is back. Robert Teitelman: On the nostalgia for manufacturing
  • The defining feature of fetishism in Tylor remains object-worship.
  • Like the old religious fetishism, with its convulsionary raptures and miraculous cures, the fetishism of commodities generates its own moments of fervent exaltation. The Society of the Spectacle – Guy Debord (translated by Ken Knabb)
  • As wrong ideas, commodity fetishism and currency fetishism is of cognitive ability instead of morality.
  • Actually, the fetishism is absent -- at least until the climactic battle, in which Saki replaces her sailor fuku with a tight leather outfit and has a yo-yo fight with the school's resident nasty girl (played by J-pop singer Rika Ishikawa), who, for the occasion, dons an S&M ensemble complete with studded-leather shorts and fishnet stockings. Archive 2008-07-01
  • While the jargon is all retro health and safety-education material, the culty fetishism is more J.G. Ballard than CPR. Boing Boing: September 18, 2005 - September 24, 2005 Archives
  • This I call the fetishism which is attached to the products of labor, as soon as they are produced as commodities, and which therefore is inseparable from the production of commodities. Archive 2005-11-01
  • Perhaps some of this fetishism is catching and explains the oddness many have noted in Ron Paul, even though his last brush as Libertarian standard bearer came in 1988. Libertarian Party Nominates Bob Barr for President « Antiwar.com Blog
  • He is for photography when it attacks the fetishism of the art object, but against it when it celebrates industrial production.
  • Nor can it be a case of orthographic fetishism, such as the gratuitous use of diacritics intended to make a word look chic, e.g. Lancôme.

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