Re: [microsound] fetishization, was nuno cannavaro

[Alberto Gaitán <alberto@xxxxxxxx>]

> On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Joshua Maremont wrote:
> > Well the fetishization of the machine is quite in fashion at the moment,
> > ...
> On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Drusca wrote:
> Personally, I'm really starting to grow tired or more exactly bored with
> seeing this term thrown around so often. It just seems like a bunch of
> intellectual cacamainy (spelling ?!). 

Sorry for being intellectual, but it's cockamamie: trifling; nearly valuless. 
(Though I like your managing to cram caca in there. :)

Fetishization is not new and it's not trifling. It's a useful word in 
anthropology.

> I bet it's a big topic in university courses these days. I'm not
> even sure what it means. Where does this whole concept of
> fetishization originate from anyway ? 

fetish
n 

1. An object that is believed to have magical or spiritual powers, especially 
such an object associated with animistic or shamanistic religious 
practices.  

2. An object of unreasonably excessive attention or reverence: made a 
fetish of punctuality.  

3. Something, such as a material object or a nonsexual part of the body, 
that arouses sexual desire and may become necessary for sexual 
gratification.  

4. An abnormally obsessive preoccupation or attachment; a fixation.  


> Sorry, don't mean this as a personal attack Joshua.  

Ditto, on you.