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Alan Baas | Philosophy Talk Series | @NSSR

A reading of On the Cult of Fetish Gods

October 19, 2014 • by Chiara Bottici

Since Marx' and Freud's influential usage of the term, we became accustomed to talk about fetishism as a topic for psychology and social theory. It is rarely remembered that the topic was originally a topic in theology and ethnology. Why has fetishism assumed such a wide meaning? Why do theorists ...

Alan Baas | Philosophy Talk Series | @NSSR

Try these games to unblock the flow, or direct it somewhere new.

November 8, 2013 • by McKenzie Wark

These games are offered as solutions for two kinds of problems. One is writer’s block. Let’s be done with the waiting for ‘inspiration’. Let’s just get to work. All one has to overcome is one’s resistance to labor. The other problem is the opposite: our facility with writing, but always ...