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Journal articles on the topic "Fetish objects"
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Braune, Sean. "Fetish-Oriented Ontology." Open Philosophy 3, no. 1 (July 18, 2020): 298–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2020-0101.
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AbstractIn her essay, “After de Brosses” (2017), Rosalind C. Morris briefly considers the historical importance of the concept of the fetish on the relatively recent movements of new materialism, but she does not engage with Speculative Realism and Object-Oriented Ontology. This essay addresses this gap and focuses on the influence of the fetish on Speculative Realism and Object-Oriented Ontology by focusing on Graham Harman’s conception of objects and Quentin Meillassoux’s theory of arche-fossils. In short, I am offering a posthumanist theorization of the fetish in order to argue that Object-Oriented Ontology can be considered, at points, to be a fetish-oriented ontology and that this notion of the fetish allows us to think about philosophical considerations of objects in a new light.
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Dant, Tim. "Fetishism and the Social Value of Objects." Sociological Review 44, no. 3 (August 1996): 495–516. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.1996.tb00434.x.
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The idea of the fetish has a particular presence in the writings of both Marx and Freud. It implies for these two theorists of the social, a particular form of relation between human beings and objects. In the work of both, the idea of the fetish involves attributing properties to objects that they do not ‘really’ have and that should correctly be recognised as human. While Marx's account of fetishism addresses the exchange-value of commodities at the level of the economic relations of production, it fails to deal in any detail with the use-value or consumption of commodities. In contrast Freud's concept of the fetish as a desired substitute for a suitable sex object explores how objects are desired and consumed. Drawing on both Marx and Freud, Baudrillard breaks with their analyses of fetishism as demonstrating a human relation with unreal objects. He explores the creation of value in objects through the social exchange of sign values, showing how objects are fetishised in ostentation. This paper argues that while Baudrillard breaks with the realism characteristic of Marx's and Freud's analyses of fetishism, he does not go far enough in describing the social and discursive practices in which objects are used and sometimes transformed into fetishes. It is proposed that the fetishisation of objects involves an overdetermination of their social value through a discursive negotiation of the capacities of objects that stimulates fantasy and desire for them.
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Balthazar, Ana Carolina. "Old things with character: The fetishization of objects in Margate, UK." Journal of Material Culture 21, no. 4 (August 20, 2016): 448–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359183516662676.
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This article explores the work of fetish in practices of consumption at a charity shop in contemporary Margate (UK). Here fetish relates to a specific semiotic ideology (described by Keane in Christian Moderns: Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter, 2007) that acknowledges the personality and history of objects. More specifically, fetish appears as the material property of old objects ‘with character’ to combine different remnants of the past and allow for or resist multiple meanings and stories. To argue that objects are fetishized in Margate is to say that in this English town we encounter a semiotic ideology that challenges the ‘moral narrative of modernity’ that claims individual freedom and agency.
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Delcea, Cristian, and Dorina EUSEI. "Fetishist disorder." International Journal of Advanced Studies in Sexology 1, no. 2 (December 1, 2019): 73–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.46388/ijass.2019.12.11.123.
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Fetishism, as a technical descriptor of atypical sexual behaviour, was noted in the writings of the well-known nineteenth century French psychologist Alfred Binet (1857–1911) (Binet, 1887) as well as prominent European sexologists Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840–1902) (Krafft-Ebing, 1886), Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) (Ellis, 1906), and Magnus Hirschfeld (1868– 1935) (Hirschfeld, 1956). In their seminal writings, all of the afore mentioned sexologists used the terms “fetish” and “fetishism” to specifically describe an intense eroticization of either non-living objects and/or specific body parts that were symbolically associated with a person. Fetishes could be non clinical manifestations of a normal spectrum of eroticization or clinical disorders causing significant interpersonal difficulties. Ellis (1906) observed that body secretions or body products could also become fetishist expressions of “erotic symbolism”. Freud (1928) considered both body parts (e.g., the foot) or objects associated with the body (e.g., shoes) as fetish objects. For the purposes of this review, a “broader” historically based core definition for Fetishism will include intense and recurrent sexual arousal to: non-living objects, an exclusive focus on body parts or body products. Keywords: fetishism, Paraphilia, Partialism, DSM-V.
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Hoffmann, Eva. "“Innocent Objects:” Fetishism and Melancholia in Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence." Konturen 8 (October 24, 2015): 155. http://dx.doi.org/10.5399/uo/konturen.8.0.3715.
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In this article, I place Orhan Pamuk’s novel The Museum of Innocence into dialogue with Sigmund Freud’s theory of the fetish. As Gerhard Neumann argues, the fetish provides the basic pattern for the modern subject and its experience of self and the world while performing the impossibility of narrating this experience. In a similar vein, the fetishized objects described in the novel and put on display in Pamuk’s actual museum in Istanbul complicate the narrator’s account of a lost love relationship. The fetish objects create an intertwinement of coalescing and contradicting narratives that point to “black melancholia” as a deeply ambiguous feeling in the collective memory of Istanbul and its people.
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MacGaffey, Wyatt. "African Objects and the Idea of Fetish." Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 25 (March 1994): 123–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/resv25n1ms20166895.
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Rana, Poonam R. L. "Symbolic Values Behind Art in the Animistic Practices among the Tharus of Dang and Deukhuri." SIRJANĀ – A Journal on Arts and Art Education 7, no. 1 (September 21, 2021): 50–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/sirjana.v7i1.39351.
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The symbolic values behind the art in the animistic practices among the Tharus of Dang and Deukhuri is a paper that deals with various symbolic objects, that are termed as fetish associated with the animistic practices observed by the Tharus of Dang and Deukhuri of Terai Nepal. The objects or the fetish created by them when analyzed through an artistic perspective, seems, to the outsiders or through the ‘Etic Approach’ just a local ethnic crude handicraft. However, when analyzed through the ‘Emic Approach’ these artistic creations or fetish have great symbolic values associated with it. This paper-based on a field survey of the two regions has brought to limelight the symbolic values behind artistic creativity associated with their animistic practices.
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Mitchell, Matthew David. "The Fetish and Intercultural Commerce in Seventeenth-century West Africa." Itinerario 36, no. 1 (April 2012): 7–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115312000344.
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Fetish. Perhaps few words are more redolent of the negative outlook of “enlightened” Europeans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries towards the “superstitions” embraced by the supposedly benighted inhabitants of the Dark Continent of Africa. This intellectual snobbery on the part of such European intellectual luminaries as Hume, Voltaire, Kant, and Marx led to fundamental misunderstandings of the nature of African religious beliefs and practices. In particular, it obscured the ways in which European visitors to the African coast made use of the concept of the fetish for their commercial purposes. In the process, they introduced European ideas about physical objects of supernatural power into the complex of beliefs that Enlightenment thinkers later came to deride as uniquely emblematic of African backwardness. The conception of the fetish as both a European and an African invention re-emerges in reading the documentary evidence left behind by European travellers and traders of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. These sources present the fetish—and in particular the practice of sealing agreements by swearing oaths on fetish objects—as an intermediary between European and African systems of economic and spiritual value, thus fostering the modicum of trust necessary for trade to proceed.
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Radermacher, Martin. "From ‘Fetish’ to ‘Aura’: The Charisma of Objects?" Journal of Religion in Europe 12, no. 2 (January 24, 2019): 166–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18748929-01202004.
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In the history of religions, material artifacts have often played an important role as mediations of the ‘sacred.’ They were and are worshipped, venerated, and sometimes destroyed for their assumed supernatural powers. The article reviews theoretical concepts that engage with the charismatic capacities of objects (‘fetish,’ ‘cultic image,’ and ‘aura’) and discusses literature about ‘charismatic objects.’ It deals with the question of what kind of charisma objects may have and suggests that the term ‘charisma,’ when defined in a specific way, is a useful concept to describe and compare specific material objects from different religious traditions. These conceptual and methodological considerations are illustrated by a brief discussion of Christian relic veneration.
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Schneiderman, Leo. "Cynthia Ozick: Diverse Functions of Transitional Objects in Fiction." Imagination, Cognition and Personality 15, no. 3 (March 1996): 207–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/j806-mgyb-cyn1-v4ln.
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The purpose of this article is to examine the role of transitional love objects in the lives of fictional adults, as depicted in the works of Cynthia Ozick. Ozick's protagonists are characterized by their symbiotic attachment to parent figures with whom they are unable to establish empathic and trusting relationships. In lieu of finding nurturance Ozick's fictional characters go in search of idealized love objects in the form of fetishes or idols, i.e., objects seeming to possess magical trustworthiness. Ozick warns against the choice of such narcissistically-determined, idolatrous objects, and extends her caveat even to human love relationships, with the implication that they are likely to prove disappointing. All of Ozick's fictional love objects represent partially differentiated, fetishistic extensions of the lover's self. These objects include a modern-day golem, idols, demons, witches, a tree, a shawl, and even a literary manuscript. Ozick clarifies the distinction between healthy self-love and self-acceptance and total absorption in the fetish as a soothing, symbolic substitute for satisfying unfulfilled developmental needs.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Fetish objects"
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Brown, Sandra Lois School of Design UNSW. "Significance, the vessel and the domestic." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Design, 2004. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/20761.
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Throughout history, people have made or acquired vessels from which to sip their favourite beverage. In the contemporary domestic setting, households frequently accumulate multiples of the same type of object in numbers that are considerably greater than is necessary and practical for use alone. Of these many objects there are often individual pieces that have special significance for the owner or user. Some are so valued that they may even be removed and set aside because of their perceived importance. The research was initiated by a previous study of tea drinking vessels coupled with a desire, as an object maker and collector, to find out why people have special items that they designate as personally important. The aim was to identify how significance could be recognised in specific objects and whether the notion that a group of features used to gauge such objects could be conveyed into studio based work. The research outcomes are evidenced in a text-based document (which articulates the theoretical and empirical elements of the enquiry) and a body of creative studio work developed in response to aspects of the investigation. The document encompasses two components of the study. The first references material from the fields of museum and cultural studies, pivotal in focusing the enquiry. This contributed to the compilation of a general and speculative inventory of qualities that might pertain to objects deemed ???significant???. During these early investigations it became evident that a more in depth and contemporary analysis of significant drinking vessels, their owners and/or users was required. A Survey Questionnaire regarding personal use and special drinking vessels preceded a series of Interviews with a selected group of Australia curators, artists, academics and collectors who discussed and analysed their association with a personally significant drinking vessel. Subsequently, the content of these interviews became central to the focus of the research and outcomes. The research isolates a number of attributes that are commonly identified in objects that, whatever their condition, are deemed ???significant???. These describe the maker, usage, ownership, association and historical context. The perceived value or worth of the object for its owner, is recognised as a consequence of significance and declares the object as distinctive. This outcome is clearly validated by the interviews. The studio work develops from the fusion of personal narrative that has been enhanced by findings of the research. In particular, it references the cherished object, most especially those pieces that have been retained despite the ravages of time and use. The resulting work was exhibited as Trace Elements ??? Marking Time: Significance, the Vessel and the Domestic at Kudos Gallery, Paddington in April 2004.
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Backes, Carmen. "O que consome o adolescente?" reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/28830.
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A tese trata da relação dos jovens com o consumo e parte da constatação de que a adolescência surge a partir da metade do século XX, como categoria diferenciada da infância e da idade adulta e simultaneamente como consumidora por excelência, tornando-se alvo principal da mídia e da indústria do marketing. Analisa o lugar que no social se recorta para o adolescente e sua relação particular com os objetos de consumo – entendendo que esse grupo parece estar predominantemente mais ligado ao delivery, ao self-service e à vida nos shopping centers do que a compromissos políticos, culturais e sociais. Parte da equivocidade da expressão “o que consome o adolescente” e centra a discussão naquilo que o consome. Tomando a Psicanálise como base conceitual, o tema foi abordado a partir da relação do sujeito ao objeto, passando pela sua constituição na relação com o Outro originário, em que o conceito do das Ding remete à mais precoce inscrição do objeto na relação ao outro materno. Analisa o papel da sublimação, como um dos destinos das moções pulsionais originariamente dirigidas ao objeto primordial, pois o processo sublimatório é um modo de haver-se com a falta e buscar outros destinos para as pulsões. A frouxidão na operação simbólica da castração dificultaria este processo, produzindo no adolescente a ancoragem numa inibição. Tal dificuldade pode colocar em jogo uma série de artifícios, dentre eles aquele que elege objetos-fetiche para dar conta imaginariamente de algo que não poderia faltar: o falo imaginário. Conclui-se, na tese, que a aderência ao objeto-fetiche pode se oferecer como possibilidade de trânsito em torno da operação de castração, na relação do adolescente ao falo materno, e que os objetos de consumo tomam forma privilegiada no lugar de auxiliares no encobrimento desta hiância. A pesquisa teórica mostra ainda que, na experiência adolescente, algumas modalidades de recusa da ausência do falo materno entram em vigor, denotando certo funcionamento fetichista, imiscuído na neurose, o que parece convocar o adolescente a fazer uma tentativa de positivação do falo, através de objetos de escolha e compartilhamento coletivo. Finalmente, aponta-se que tal forma de positivação estaria numa relação direta com a dificuldade de inscrição simbólica da diferença dos sexos, ou seja, da operação de castração e da aceitação da ausência do falo; aponta-se ainda que o objeto fetiche ocuparia uma função ortopédica que falha na sua intenção, pois necessita ser reiterado sistematicamente, assim como o objeto precisa ser substituído indefinidamente.The thesis deals with the relation of young people with consumption and comes from the observation that adolescence has its origins in the middle of the twentieth century, as a category different from childhood and from adulthood and simultaneously as consumer by excellence, becoming the media and marketing industry main target. It analyses the place that in the social is reserved for the adolescent and his/her particular relation with the consumption objects – understanding that this group seems to be predominantly more connected with the delivery, with the self-service and with the life in the shopping malls than with political, cultural and social commitments. It comes from the equivocity of the expression “what consumes the adolescent” and focuses the discussion in what consumes him/her. Taking psychoanalysis as conceptual basis, the theme was approached beginning with the relation of the subject with the object, passing through his constitution in relation to the originary Other, in which the concept of das Ding refers to the earliest inscription of the object in the relation with the maternal other. It analyses the role of sublimation, as one of the destinies of the drive motions originally directed towards the primordial object, as the sublimatory process is a means of dealing with the lack and of searching for other destinies to the drives. The looseness in the castration symbolic operation would make this process more difficult, producing in the adolescent the anchorage in an inhibition. Such a difficulty may bring to play a series of artifacts, among them the one that elects fetish objects to imaginarily deal with something that could not lack: the imaginary phallus. It is concluded, in the thesis, that the adherence to the fetish object may be offered as a possibility of going around the castration operation, in the relation between the adolescent and the maternal phallus, and that the objects of consumption assume a privileged form as assistants in covering this lack. The theoretical research still shows that, in the adolescent experience, some modalities of refusal of the absence of the maternal phallus come into force, denoting a certain fetishist functioning, tamped in the neurosis, what seems to invoke the adolescent to make a trial of positivating the phallus, through objects of choice and collective sharing. Finally, it is pointed out that such a way of positivation would be in direct relation with the difficulty of a symbolic inscription of the sexual difference, that is, of the castration operation and the acceptance of the absence of the phallus; it is still pointed out that the fetish object would take an orthopedic function that fails in its intention, as it needs to be systematically reiterated, as well as the object needs to be indefinitely substituted.
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Sarti, Milena Maria. "Para além dos objetos: as (de)formas do inconsciente no discurso publicitário e a formação de uma língua-objeto." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/59/59137/tde-21102013-143002/.
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Propomos discutir a relação da composição significante do discurso publicitário atual com a escritura do discurso capitalista, iluminando a forma pela qual balizadores sintáticos como os slogans encontram-se com balizadores do desejo no laço social perverso do capitalismo. Na relação que o discurso publicitário estabelece entre identidade e mercadoria, a existência de um mais além do objeto de consumo, como (de)forma ou estetização do objeto a/mais valia, indicia uma coincidência entre a construção fetichizada do corpo totalizante da mercadoria - correlativa da construção da totalidade fictícia do Outro - e a composição da imagem de unidade dos sujeitos como alguém que se faz por si e de si mesmo. Situando-nos frente a uma alteração histórica da relação do sujeito com a língua (campo do Outro), elaboramos que a cadeia de significantes foi transfigurada em cadeia de objetos de consumo, evidenciando uma relação obscura entre a ideologia do eu autônomo atualizada no consumo e a economia desejante dada através do que chamamos de língua-objeto, enquanto realização de um simbólico que oculta sua dimensão simbólica. Partindo da Psicanálise e da Análise do Discurso pêcheuxtiana, analisamos o tema de campanha \"Brastemp You\" e o slogan \"Seja autêntico\" e apreendemos um funcionamento intersubjetivo pautado pelo reconhecimento do saber gozar que o semblante fetichista engendra numa correlação gozo auto erótico e mercadológico. A exigência do gozar em público, que alavanca o funcionamento da línguaobjeto, sugere que, assim como o esteio do Outro é sua fabricação como a na fantasia, o esteio da unidade imaginária dos sujeitos como \"auto ente\" é o funcionamento intersubjetivo creditado como subjacente à língua-objeto. Logo, a conversão da fala \"me brastempzar\" em fala culturalmente reconhecida \"autenticidade pessoal\" é dependente de um desvio pelo Outro, tesouro dos objetos de consumo, simbolicamente presente no semelhante, parceiro do semblante, em função do valor de gozo do objeto. Uma vez a fanstasmagoria fetichista reescrita no discurso dos sujeitos, o diálogo se mostra como testagem da eficácia do semblante de saber gozar e como busca por comprovação do sonho de unidade aí enclausurado. Concluímos que, obstruído o potencial desejante pela correlação gozo auto erótico e mercadológico, a política de exaltação do eu, materializada no discurso publicitário, desvela uma nova forma de assujeitamento regida pela administração do gozo, na qual se realiza a união da utopia do desejo (gozar sem entraves) à Lei (parcialidade de gozo) de forma comprometida com o gozo do Outro do capitalismo que, paramentado no consumo, se promove no registro da infinitude. Isso conduz os sujeitos a um (des)nortear a si mesmos e entre si como instrumentos de \"satisfação garantida\" do Outro do capitalismo, desconhecendo que o semblante de saber fetichista apresenta-se como um saber sabido e compartilhado acerca de como completar o Outro e a si mesmos que comporta a negação do que é dado como certo: o gozo sem limites e o cumprimento dos ideais de liberdade e autonomia. A celebração móvel e consumista aí instalada promove a potência imaginária do sujeito que representa a abdicação do direito aos avatares do desejo em seu valor singular e político.We propose to discuss the relationship between the significant composition of present-day advertising discourse and the capitalist discourse, shedding light on the issue of how syntactic organizers as like the slogans meet desire organizers in the perverse social loop of capitalism. In the relation between identity and merchandise established by the advertising discourse, the existence of a further-of-the-object, as a form of aestheticization of the object a/surplus, indicates a coincidence between the fetishized construction of the totalizing body of the merchandise --- a correlate of the construction of the fictitious totality of the Other --- and the construction of the image of unity in subjects, as if each one was made by himself and from himself. Facing a historical change in the relation of the subject with the language (field of the Other), we elaborate that the chain of significants has been transfigured to a chain of consumption objects, bringing evidence to an obscure relationship between the ideology of the autonomous self actualized in consumption and the desiring economy given by what we call language-object, as a realization of a symbolism which hides its symbolic dimension. Starting with Psychoanalysis and Pêcheuxtian Discourse Analysis, we analyze the campaign theme \"Brastemp You\" and the slogan \"Seja Autêntico\" (\"Be Authentic\"), and apprehend an inter-subjective operation based on the recognition of the enjoyment knowledge engendered by the fetishist semblance in a correlation between self-erotic enjoy and marketing enjoy. The requirement to enjoy in public, which leverages the operation of the language-object, suggests that, just as the support of the Other is its fabrication as a in fantasy, so the support of the imaginary unity of subjects as \"self entities\" is the inter-subjective operation understood as underlying the language-object. Thus, the conversion of the saying \"brastempize me\" in the culturally recognized saying \"personal authenticity\" depends on a detour through the Other, treasure of all consumption objects, symbolically present in the peers of the semblance, in function of the enjoy value of the object. Once the fetishist phantasmagoria is rewritten in the discourse of the subjects, then dialogue presents itself as an efficacy test of the enjoyment knowledge semblance and as a search for proof of the dream of unity enclosed in it. We conclude that, being the desiring potential obstructed by the correlation of self-erotic enjoy and marketing enjoy, the policy of the exaltation of the \"I\", implemented in the advertising discourse, unveils a new form of subjectivation regulated by the administration of enjoy, in which a meeting of the utopia of desire (to enjoy without obstacles) with the Law (partiality of the enjoy) is realized in a manner committed with the enjoy of the Other of capitalism which, adorned in the consumption, develops itself in the register of infinitude. That leads subjects to (mis)guide themselves and among each other as instruments of \"guaranteed satisfaction\" of the Other of capitalism, unaware that the fetishist knowledge semblance presents itself as a known and shared knowledge of how to complete the Other and themselves which accommodates the denial of what is taken for granted: enjoy without limits and the fulfillment of the ideals of liberty and autonomy. This mobile and consumerist celebration promotes the imaginary power of the subject who represents the abdication of the right to the avatars of desire in its singular and political value.
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Malt, Johanna. "Object and fetish in constructions of a surrealist revolutionary aesthetic." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.396226.
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Moskowitz, David Joseph. "Sobre bruxos e raças: Economias de objeto-relação e os custos da representação ou, como ser um anti-anti-fetichista da diferença." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2006. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=6593.
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Por que tantos estudos acadêmicos afirmam a equivalência conceitual entre raça e bruxaria? A dissertação investiga as raízes e conseqüências deste gesto. Procura-se enfocar a maneira em que os dois objetos viram objetos de pesquisa
enquanto representações. Uma comparação entre os programas de pesquisa reputadamente opostoscognitivista e sociocultural serve para delinear os pressupostos e limites de tal abordagem. Lançando mão de uma perspectiva pragmatista e fenomenológica, a primeira parte do trabalho revela as dificuldades de um programa representacionalista em dar conta da instância concreta de identificação. Sugere-se que isto é resultado da sua ênfase excessiva na classificação. Fazendo uso das promessas de uma antropologia simétrica, a
segunda parte re-examina a insistência da ciência social em `des-naturalizar os objetos através de uma exposição crítica da sua produção. Como uma alternativa ao anti-fetichismo da crítica social, a conclusão propõe uma maneira de tratar a
alteridade capaz de oferecer novos objetos de saber e alterar nossa orientação visà-vis eles. O estudo de identidade poderia então ir além dos conceitos de reconhecimento, fronteiras, e exclusão.Why do so many academic studies affirm the conceptual equivalence of race andwitchcraft? This dissertation investigates both the roots and the consequences of this gesture. It analyzes the way both become objects of knowledge as representations. A comparison between the purported rival research agendas of cognitivism and sociocultural analysis serves to outline the assumptions and limits of this approach. Following a pragmatist and phenomenological premise, the first part of the dissertation reveals the difficulty of a representationalist research program to account for the concrete occurrence of identification. This is, the paper suggests, a result of the formers excessive focus on classification. Taking up the mantle of a symmetric anthropology, the second part reexamines the insistence of social science to denaturalize its objects by the critical exposure of their production. As an alternative to the anti-fetishism of social critique, the conclusion proposes a different manner of engaging alterity, one capable of both offering novel objects of analysis, and altering our orientation toward them. The study of difference and identity might then be able to advance beyond the well-worn concepts of recognition, boundaries, and exclusion.
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Turner, Catherine Elizabeth. "Self-fashioning, Consumption, and Japonisme: The Power of Collecting in Tissot’s Jeunes Femmes Regardant des Objets Japonais, 1869." Scholar Commons, 2009. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/58.
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This study examines self-fashioning and the practice of collecting in Second Empire Paris as manifest in James Tissot's Jeunes femmes regardant des objets japonais (1869, Cincinnati Museum of Art). The painting, exhibited in the Salon of 1869, conspicuously portrays Tissot's own collection of exotic Asian collectibles and the artist's private luxe interior. When scholars investigate and interpret Jeunes femmes, it is regularly defined within the prescriptive realm of Tissot's later London paintings, or of his well known series, La Femme à Paris. I argue for a less circumspect engagement with the painting, by focusing on the portrayal of the collectible objects and the decadent interior as evidence of bourgeois self-fashioning and the decorous display and consumption concomitant with Second Empire Paris.
This thesis considers the history of collecting in Second Empire Paris; in particular, the early impact of japonisme on Tissot's artwork. Recent scholarship largely regards Tissor's initial engagement with japonisme, as demonstrated by Japonaise au bain (1864, Muse des Beaux-Arts, Dijon) and Jeune femme tenant des objets japonais (1865, Private Collection), as trite. I argue that such categorizing biased sound consideration of Jeunes femmes. I investigate Tissot's interaction with Japanese aristocracy and contend that his appointment as drawing instructor to Prince Akitake marked a turning point in his artistic career and in his reputation as a collector.
This thesis also explores the role of fetish as an operative analytical tool. By employing the theories of Freudian and Marxist fetish, I am able to scrutinize the collectible objects' inclusion and meticulous representation, account for the obsessive nature of the collector and investigate specific strategies of posturing and self-promotion. Moreover, I can discuss the painting, and the collection it portrays, as a producing agent for Tissot's own artistic and social legacy. Ultimately, I conclude that Jeunes femmes, a richly detailed painting of Tissot's collectibles and interior space, is implicitly concerned with bourgeois self-fashioning and Tissot's own need for financial and social legitimization.
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Rowsell, Anthony Richard. "Intra-uterine foetal surgery." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5a97d2ca-ea8a-441a-890a-1a529b6897c3.
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Taveira, Junior Manoel Paulo. "Do fetiche à relíquia: paixão, luto e melancolia (?) a partir de um estudo de caso." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2014. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/15369.
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Previous issue date: 2014-08-19This work aims to investigate the origins and effects of passion through a case study. It is a study of the psychoanalytic clinic that aims to articulate metapsychological concepts of S. Freud's work taking as spine the history of the subject in question. The first chapter is dedicated to discuss the concepts of object-choice and fetishism. The second chapter is devoted to investigate and discuss the concept of the Oedipus complex, ideal Self, and the experience of illusion inherent passions. The third chapter discusses the concepts of mourning and melancholia. Clinical material are presented in each chapter to illustrate the chosen metapsychological concepts and indicate vividly the suffering experienced by the subject of the case, as well as his ability to "cure"
Este trabalho tem a finalidade de investigar as origens e os efeitos da paixão através de um estudo de caso. É um estudo sobre a clínica psicanalítica que objetiva a articulação de conceitos metapsicológicos da obra S. Freud tomando como coluna vertebral parte da história do sujeito em questão. O primeiro capítulo dedica-se a discutir os conceitos de escolha objetal e fetichismo. O segundo capítulo dedica-se a investigar e discutir o conceito de complexo de Édipo, ideal do Eu e a ilusão inerente às paixões. O terceiro capítulo aborda os conceitos de luto e melancolia. Em cada capítulo são apresentados materiais clínicos com a finalidade de ilustrar os conceitos metapsicológicos escolhidos e indicar com vivacidade o sofrimento experienciado pelo sujeito do caso, bem como suas possibilidades de cura
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Rackham, Thomas. "Ultrasound segmentation tools and their application to assess fetal nutritional health." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5d102b18-dd32-4004-8aa5-b04242139daa.
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Maternal diet can have a great impact on the health and development of the fetus. Poor fetal nutrition has been linked to the development of a set of conditions in later life, such as coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes and hypertension, while restricted growth can result in hypogylcemia, hypocalcemia, hypothermia, polycythemia, hyperbilirubinemia and cerebral palsy. High alcohol consumption during pregnancy can result in Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, a condition that can cause growth retardation, lowered intelligence and craniofacial defects. Current biometric assessment of the fetus involves size-based measures which may not accurately portray the state of fetal development, since they cannot differentiate cases of small-but-healthy or large-but-unhealthy fetuses. This thesis aims to outline a set of more appropriate measures of accurately capturing the state of fetal development. Specifically, soft tissue area and liver volume measurement are examined, followed by facial shape characterisation. A number of tools are presented which aim to allow clinicians to achieve accurate segmentations of these landmark regions. These are modifications on the Live Wire algorithm, an interactive segmentation method in which the user places a number of anchor points and a minimum cost path is calculated between the previous anchor point and the cursor. This focuses on giving the clinician intuitive control over the exact position of the segmented contour. These modifications are FA-S Live Wire, which utilises Feature Asymmetry and a weak shape constraint, ASP Live Wire, which is a 3D expansion of Live Wire, and FA-O Live Wire, which uses Feature Asymmtery and Local Orientation to guide the segmentation process. These have been designed with each of the specific biometric landmarks in mind. Finally, a method of characterising fetal face shape is proposed, using a combination of the segmentation methods described here and a simple shape model with a parameterised b-spline meshing approach to facial surface representation.
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Edwards, Ian B. "The fetish market and animal parts trade of Mali, West Africa : an ethnographic investigation into cultural use and significance." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/28522.
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While much research has examined the intricate interactions associated with the
harvesting of wild animals for human consumption, little work has been undertaken in
attempting to understand the greater socio-cultural significance of such use. In addition,
to properly understand such systems of interaction, an intimate knowledge is required
with regard to the rationale or motivation of resource users. In present day Mali, West
Africa, the population perceives and upholds wildlife as a resource not only of valuable
animal protein, in a region of famine and drought, but a means of generating income.
The animal parts trade is but one mechanism within the larger socio-cultural structure
that exploits wildlife through a complex human-environmental system to the benefit of
those who participate. Moreover, this informal, yet highly structured system serves both
cultural and outsider demand through its goods and services. By using traditional
ethnographic investigation techniques (participant observation and semi-structured
interviews) in combination with thick narration and multidisciplinary analysis (sociocultural
and biological-environmental), it is possible to construct a better understanding
of the functions, processes, and motivation of those who participate. In a world where
there is but only a limited supply of natural and wild resources, understanding human-environmental
systems is of critical value.Graduation date: 2003
Books on the topic "Fetish objects"
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Zuñi fetish carvings. Decatur, GA: South West Connection, 1994.
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Rodee, Marian E. The fetish carvers of Zuni. Albuquerque, N.M: Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, 1990.
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Whittle, Kay. Native American fetish carvings of the Southwest. Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 1998.
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Architekturmuseum, Deutsches, ed. Das Architektur Modell: Werkzeug, Fetisch, kleine Utopie = The architectural model : tool, fetish, small utopia. Frankfurt am Main: DAM, Deutsches Architekturmuseum, 2012.
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What are these queer stones?: Baetyls : epistemology of a Minoan fetish. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013.
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photographer, Dubois Hughes, and Claes, Didier, editor, writer of preface, eds. Fétiches et objets ancestraux d'Afrique: African fetishes and ancestral objects. Milan, Italy: 5 Continents, 2013.
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McManis, Kent. Zuni fetishes and carvings. Tucson, Ariz: Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2004.
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In Gegenwart des Fetischs: Dingkonjunktur und Fetischbegriff in der Diskussion. Wien: Verlag Turia + Kant, 2014.
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El fetiche en el museo: Aproximación al arte primitivo. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2011.
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Zuni fetishes: Using Native American objects for meditation, reflection, and insight. [San Francisco]: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993.
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Neroni, Hilary. "Confederate signifiers in Vermont: fetish objects and racist enjoyment." In Lacan and Race, 51–64. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429326790-3-5.
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Robertson, Brian. "Erotic Embarras and the Fetish Object." In Lacanian Antiphilosophy and the Problem of Anxiety, 31–43. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137513533_3.
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Dibbell, Julian. "How to Handcraft an Achingly Self-Referential Virtual Commodity Fetish Object (For Fun and Profit!)." In Drunk on Capitalism. An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Market Economy, Art and Science, 159–77. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2082-4_13.
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Vere, Bernard. "A Token of Triumph Cut Down to Size: Jacob Epstein’s Rock Drill as Fetish Object." In Sculpture, Sexuality and History, 125–43. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95840-8_6.
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Liebl, Franz. "Unbekannte Theorie-Objekte der Trendforschung (XXXVII): Die Universalisierung des Fetisch im Turbokapitalismus." In Gemischtes Gehacktes, 81–94. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-24411-8_8.
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Liebl, Franz. "Unbekannte Theorie-Objekte der Trendforschung (XVI): Der Fetisch im Kontext der Techno-Kultur." In Gemischtes Gehacktes, 11–19. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-24411-8_2.
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Jaromczyk, Jerzy W., and Zbigniew Lonc. "Sequences of Radius k: How to Fetch Many Huge Objects into Small Memory for Pairwise Computations." In Algorithms and Computation, 594–605. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30551-4_52.
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Moshenska, Joe. "Fetish." In Iconoclasm As Child's Play, 95–124. Stanford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9780804798501.003.0005.
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This chapter opens with an ambiguous set of objects collected by a Dutch woman named Margrieta van Varick and described as “Indian Babies,” possibly brought with her from the Dutch East Indies to New England, and relates them to the practice of iconoclastic child’s play in Malaysia. It repositions iconoclastic child’s play in a fraught colonial context and asks how the play of other cultures is to be interpreted. Beginning with ethnographic and psychoanalytic discussions of child’s play by Lévi-Strauss, Winnicott, and others, it then moves to consider the category of the fetish as one that has long been intertwined with the status of children and their playing. It uses the contested status of this category--as an object both replete with, and devoid of, meaning--to reconsider the fetish as plaything both in sixteenth-century Guinea and in Adorno’s writing on artworks and children’s games.
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Swales, Stephanie. "The phobic and fetish objects." In Studying Lacan’s Seminars IV and V, 38–48. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429397905-5.
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Kapoor, Ilan. "Fetishism in International Development." In Confronting Desire, 123–46. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501751721.003.0006.
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This chapter discusses fetishism. As a substitute for fundamental trauma, the fetish is a site of disavowal, allowing the subject to better master their world by ridding it of difference. Additionally, by behaving single-mindedly toward the fetish object as if it possesses a sublime quality, the fetishist forecloses other possible worthy objects or sociopolitical goals. Mastery, disavowal, and foreclosure thus become the hallmarks of fetishism. The chapter applies these psychoanalytic insights to international development — particularly its dominant modernization variant — by focusing on two of the latter's top fetishes: growth and technology. It examines how to each fetish is ascribed extraordinary powers, with several important socioenvironmental implications: the domination of the Other; the disavowal of social inequalities and environmental degradation; and the foreclosure of politics.
Conference papers on the topic "Fetish objects"
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Zeng, Zhen, Adrian Röfer, and Odest Chadwicke Jenkins. "Semantic Linking Maps for Active Visual Object Search (Extended Abstract)." In Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-21}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/667.
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We aim for mobile robots to function in a variety of common human environments, which requires them to efficiently search previously unseen target objects. We can exploit background knowledge about common spatial relations between landmark objects and target objects to narrow down search space. In this paper, we propose an active visual object search strategy method through our introduction of the Semantic Linking Maps (SLiM) model. SLiM simultaneously maintains the belief over a target object's location as well as landmark objects' locations, while accounting for probabilistic inter-object spatial relations. Based on SLiM, we describe a hybrid search strategy that selects the next best view pose for searching for the target object based on the maintained belief. We demonstrate the efficiency of our SLiM-based search strategy through comparative experiments in simulated environments. We further demonstrate the real-world applicability of SLiM-based search in scenarios with a Fetch mobile manipulation robot.
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Wiphusitphunpol, Witoon, and Thitiporn Lertrusdachakul. "Fetch performance comparison of object relational mapper in .NET platform." In 2017 14th International Conference on Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology (ECTI-CON). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ecticon.2017.8096264.
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Das, Aveek, Dinesh Thakur, James Keller, Sujit Kuthirummal, Zsolt Kira, and Mihail Pivtoraiko. "R-MASTIF: robotic mobile autonomous system for threat interrogation and object fetch." In IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, edited by Juha Röning and David Casasent. SPIE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2010720.
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He, Liang, Ruolin Wang, and Xuhai Xu. "PneuFetch: Supporting Blind and Visually Impaired People to Fetch Nearby Objects via Light Haptic Cues." In CHI '20: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3383095.
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Zhang, K. D., and J. M. Jin. "Parallel FETI-DP for efficient EM analysis of general objects and antenna arrays." In 2015 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA). IEEE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iceaa.2015.7297126.
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