reification

How To Use reification In A Sentence

• According to marx, treating labor as a commodity exemplified the reification of the individual.
• Rather than the state of reification that characterised the industrial regime in which the self becomes a thing, we have entered a space of derealisation in which the body is deprived of any contact with the outside. Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET
• The reification of humans, turning them into things, is a familiar pattern in modern warfare.
• These doctrines become more tempting as forms of retreatism in postmodernity, in the face of increasing ethnic, religious, and sexual pluralism, functioning as a new reification of subjectivity, a new pietism of self.
• If we make decisions based on our worst fears, rather than a realistic assessment of their likely reification, we are acting out of panic.
• His doctrine of reification is derived from the doctrines of the Marx, Max and Georg Simmel.
• according to Marx, treating labor as a commodity exemplified the reification of the individual
• It is in the context of this gradual reification in late capitalism that the romance once again comes to be felt as the place of narrative heterogeneity and freedom from the reality principle.
• For example, both Scalia and Rehnquist misused the word “hypothecate,” apparently confusing it with the near homonym “hypothesize,” which, admittedly, a dictionary or two will give as a secondary definition (in my view, this merely a reification of the sound-alike confusion and reflects the descriptive (as opposed to prescriptive) philosophy of the editor). Business, Law, Economics & Society
• Thompson enumerates a number of the strategies of domination, including legitimation, dissimulation, unification, fragmentation, and reification.