Fetishism

Jean Baudrillard: Postmodernism 1] Historical Context Postmodern theory emerged at the end of the enlightenment period in Europe. The roots of postmodern theory are within the switch from traditional societies where magic and religion were the main sources of explanation for social phenomena to a new meta-narrative which was, science and ration thought. Meta-narratives are beliefs that offer people hope and guidance they are the “big story” and it represents an explanation for everything. A key…

After hearing your passionate speech on gun ownership, I feel I am obliged to write to you in hope of expressing my alternative views and attitude towards the gun ownership. I suspect the authoritativeness of your interpretation upon the second amendment, and I think it has most incongruously given a false sense of belief to public. To my displeasure, which might have been shared with other Americans, I fervently disapprove your speech on providing the misleading fact about the trend of gun…

the vagina”) and thus unpleasure, and the male unconscious has two avenues of escape from it: either a voyeuristic investigation demystifying her mystery and devaluing her deriving sadistic pleasure out of it or by substituting it with scopophilic fetishism, that builds up on the physical beauty of the object, transforming it into satisfying in itself (Mulvey, 1975) but it is necessary to note that this doesn’t represent women qua women at all and sets male/non-male instead of man/female…

From an early age, many are intensely interested in voyeurism, fetishism, and sado-masochistic pornography. These are some clues that at a young age a murderers mind starts to evolve. The victims of murders usually have the same kind of way or something in common like their race, appearance, age or sex. Most serial killers are very intelligent and know what they are doing. Psychology is the science and study of human behavior and mental processes. Also, it is the study of human minds and its…

website. In their early days they took on the auto industry, the fashion industry, television in general, and over consumption. Since then, the Adbusters Media Foundation has critiqued societies obsession with technology, the food industry, commodity fetishism, government, and…

While many might not realize, different types of oppressions are often tied together, in a way where one oppression can directly or indirect affect another. Most of us would recognize the oppression towards animals when we consume meat; however, almost none of us note the workers behind the scene who are also oppressed. Torres (2007) and Hawthorne (2011) explore the oppression toward humans and nonhuman animals in this capitalist society that are hidden from the public. Although both articles go…

Laura de Mello e Souza originally wrote “The Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross” as her dissertation in 1985. The book is a study throughout the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries about sorcery in colonial Brazil. During her research, a new matter became evident to de Mello e Souza: the colonials current religion. The people’s religion was said to be a collaborate mixing of European, Indian, and African cultures, and de Mello e Souza provides plenty of primary sources, particularly records from…

pissed off." (Fight Club Hour 1) Tyler in this speech and many other speeches attacks the institutions of control that have been manipulated to render man into alienated labor. He attacks the advertising agency, that entices us of a form of commodity fetishism: or as the film calls it “ Ikea nesting instinct.” Fincher argues this demonstrates a frank dissatisfaction of the America they inherent, with its false pretext of the American dream, But argues for a more carnal and hedonistic approach to…

Research Questions: The objective of this paper is to investigate animal welfare and cosmetology from a moral philosophical framework. Is animal testing universally unethical or contingent on circumstance? In particular, is animal testing considered unethical in the cosmetics industry? If so, how do corporate entities, governments, and citizens justify the production and purchase of cosmetic products tested on animals? Are corporations inherently wicked, are the psychopathic, innately selfish,…

In modern day society, imagery and subtlety is bombarded upon the world’s population, forcing to a degree, to make people perceive life and others in the way media presents us and advertisers employ a powerful strategy to sell a sense of worth and value that is only attainable if you purchase the right products. 
Now, the idea of portraying and selling a sense of value is in essence saying that this worthiness can only be bought and conformity is of a requirement to achieve this value. But what…