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Harry Garuba
Harry Garuba
e-flux Announcement
Posted: July 13, 2012
Institution
# 36
On Animism, Modernity/Colonialism, and the African Order of Knowledge: Provisional Reflections
Harry Garuba
It might even be said that the fetish is the consummate form of power for Marx insofar as it mystifies and materializes in the same gesture, insofar as it crystallizes the necessity and inevitability of mystification for materialization. Indeed, if fetishism is that process whereby power as a relation is obscured through reification, through the guise of an object, then what Marx calls material life, with its thoroughly objective, tangible and concrete character, is always already…
e-flux Journal
Posted: July 1, 2012
Category
Philosophy, Colonialism & Imperialism
Subjects
Animism, Modernity, Epistemology, Commodification, Temporality, Postcolonial Theory, Africa