I know that we are not going to discuss this until next week, but I do have a question about the reading that you guys can help with: When the commodification of painting is being described as a "reification trap", are they referring to the theory of Marxism? I had to look up what Reification meant in the dictionary--
Reification is making something real, bringing something into being, or making something concrete. Reification may also refer to: Reification (Gestalt psychology), the perception of an object as having more spatial information than is present.
Reification (also known as concretism, hypostatization, or the fallacy of misplaced concreteness) is a fallacy of ambiguity, when an abstraction (abstract belief or hypothetical construct) is treated as if it were a concrete, real event, or physical entity.
So, then considering Marxism and Reification:
In Marxism, reification (German: Verdinglichung, literally: "making into a thing" (cf. Latin res meaning "thing") or Versachlichung, literally "objectification"; regarding something impersonally) is the thingification of social relations or of those involved in them, to the extent that the nature of social relationships is expressed by the relationships between traded objects (see commodity fetishism and value-form).
So, are they saying that to make a painting only a fetishism of consumerism negates the fact that paintings in a gallery are connected to "networks" and everything happening around them? Well then what about the white cube theory to negate what is happening around paintings?
I get a little lost with these terms, and where I am supposed to go with this beyond painting, and consider the ready-made and mechanical reproduction, and then the title of the essay as "Painting Beside Itself".
I know that we are not going to discuss this until next week, but I do have a question about the reading that you guys can help with: When the commodification of painting is being described as a "reification trap", are they referring to the theory of Marxism? I had to look up what Reification meant in the dictionary--
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Reification (also known as concretism, hypostatization, or the fallacy of misplaced concreteness) is a fallacy of ambiguity, when an abstraction (abstract belief or hypothetical construct) is treated as if it were a concrete, real event, or physical entity.
So, then considering Marxism and Reification:
In Marxism, reification (German: Verdinglichung, literally: "making into a thing" (cf. Latin res meaning "thing") or Versachlichung, literally "objectification"; regarding something impersonally) is the thingification of social relations or of those involved in them, to the extent that the nature of social relationships is expressed by the relationships between traded objects (see commodity fetishism and value-form).
So, are they saying that to make a painting only a fetishism of consumerism negates the fact that paintings in a gallery are connected to "networks" and everything happening around them? Well then what about the white cube theory to negate what is happening around paintings?
I get a little lost with these terms, and where I am supposed to go with this beyond painting, and consider the ready-made and mechanical reproduction, and then the title of the essay as "Painting Beside Itself".