fetishisation

The Ayodhya movement instead promoted a kind of fetishisation of such political relationships and of political action itself, converting one's relationship with a physical object or a symbol into the essence of one's relationship with the movement.

Countercurrents.org 2008

The rapid deployment of mass visual entertainment in television, coupled with existential attitudes to morality brought about by WWII, combined to produce a bloody but newly distanced fascination with death, tempered with the fetishisation of celebrity explored by Ballard in The Atrocity Exhibition and, later, Crash.

Ballardian » “Ambiguous aims”: a review of Crash: Homage to J.G. Ballard [NSFW] 2010

Crash is a personal favourite, I like the perversity of it; it takes the whole modernist fetishisation of technology and mixes it with contemporary obsessions like celebrity cults.

Ballardian » 'Architectures of the Near Future': An Interview with Nic Clear 2008

The "Maschinenmensch" robot based on Maria is a brilliant eroticisation and fetishisation of modern technology and the current crisis in Dubai, whose economic boom was founded on a colossal import of globalised labour, makes Metropolis seem very contemporary.

Metropolis 2010

Fritz Lang's sci-fi classic is restored with extra footage – and emerges as an eternally prescient and relevant film about the fetishisation of modern technology, writes Peter Bradshaw

Metropolis 2010

A handful of cavemen who became too snooty for caves started a fetishisation of shelter which has led to elaborate yurts, impregnable castles, shimmering palaces, dodgy loft conversions, stone cladding and Foxtons.

£140m for a flat? Perhaps the buyer would like to see my Kilburn des res 2010

"Gathering Storm" is not, I suspect, a phrase chosen at random even if it does rather confirm the American right's embarrassing fetishisation of Winston Churchill.

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

"Gathering Storm" is not, I suspect, a phrase chosen at random even if it does rather confirm the American right's embarrassing fetishisation of Winston Churchill.

The Gathering Storm of Same-Sex Marriage 2009

And while Grey can be applauded for her willingness to do so-called ‘interracial’ porn, these selfsame films surely reinforce racist stereotypes, fantasies and fetishisation rather than challenge them.

Keith had THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE with Sasha Grey for FREE at the EIFF! | Obsessed With Film 2009

"Gathering Storm" is not, I suspect, a phrase chosen at random even if it does rather confirm the American right's embarrassing fetishisation of Winston Churchill.

The Gathering Storm of Same-Sex Marriage 2009