Planchette, My Love  

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Shelton, Allen

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies vol. 6 no. 3 (Aug. 2006), page 311-329.
Topik: narrative; autobiographical materials; ethnography; critical theory; religion
Fulltext: 311.pdf (136.29KB)

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In the mid-19th century Marx recognized the growing occult significance of the commodity in everyday life extending from the dancing table in the kitchen to the enormous edifice of capital surrounded by a cloud of charged, interlocked commodities. But what Marx could not fully grasp is how deeply implicated this new addition to the human ecosystem would become when commodity fetishization matured as a process. The personhood of things and the thingness of persons have become inexorably tied up. This article traces the formation of the psychic world of a single commodity, a planchette within the history of a relationship and space; culminating in an exorcism and an individual set off like a broken toy.

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