The Lobi of Burkina Faso carve such figures, which they call bateba. Once activated, the bateba can be invoked for aid but will die if neglected. [britannica.com]

And it is this that makes de Brosses worth rediscovering today—fetishism stands for the persistence of the irrational in modern rationalism, at once a sign of reason’s failure and a symptom of reason’s self-delusion.” [press.uchicago.edu]

Through this ironic distance, DeLillo renders Jack’s moment of modernist epiphany in which he experiences “profound imaginative perception” (Wilcox 349) as a postmodern delusion of “hallucinogenic intensity” (Jameson 27-28). 13 By impeding Jack’s development [journals.openedition.org]

” — John Kucich, author of Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class Peter Melville Logan is Associate Professor of English at Temple University and the author of Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century [sunypress.edu]

She and her closely-knit team interpret the evolution of society and the signals of consumer tastes to come, without forgetting economic reality. Features The content of the book may shock, but also inspire and excite. [store.frameweb.com]

Mobilizing his work in the anthropology of science, he uses the notion of “factishes” to explore a way of respecting the objectivity of facts and the power of fetishes without forgetting that both are fabricated. [bibliovault.org]

Since we only ever relate to those products through the exchange of money, we forget the "secret hidden under the apparent movements in the relative values of commodities" (168); that is labor: "It is... precisely this finished form of the world of commodities—the [qualityresearchinternational.com]

We should appreciate our significant others and our closest, most intimate friends without forgetting to rely on the friends around us. I should know. [columbiaspectator.com]

John Galliano repurposed this silhouette and aesthetic several times during his helm at the House of Dior which set the standard for an era of couture one can’t forget. Even Raf Simons revisited this same aesthetic during his time at Christian Dior. [indie-mag.com]

'All reification is a forgetting', as Horkheimer and Adorno put it. (1972, p.230) The rule of identity is the rule of amnesia. Memory, and with it hope, are subordinated to the relentless movement of the clock which goes nowhere. [libcom.org]

Preface Fetishism, Desire and Finitude: The Artful Dodge Christopher Gemerchak Fetishism and the Vicissitudes of the Object in Sublimation According to Freud and Lacan Paul Moyaert Vertigo of Substitutes: Fetish and Trophy Jean-Joseph Goux Genital COnstructions [lup.be]