Commodity Fetishism
use value and exchange value
commodity self
“consumerism creates and abstract world of signs and symbols separate from the economic context of commerce and production”
How?
mass-produced goods are emptied of the meaning of their production (the context in which they were produced and the labour that created them) and then filled with new meanings in ways that both mystify the product and turn it into a fetish object
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