In his seminal work History and Class Consciousness (1923), Lukács examined the impact of capitalist alienation on the individual and society, asserting that the fragmentation and reification ...

This is the reification of caste. Reification is the turning of an abstract, intangible idea into a fixed belief. It occurs when people start believing in the concreteness of a concept ...

The relationship between the human body and architecture has always been a key element in architectural design and practice, however, the connection between the two wasn't documented or even ...

The Phenomenon of Reification Printer-friendly version Marxism Georg Lukacs Comments Related content The Standpoint of the Proletariat Ideology and Superstructure in Historical Materialism - Franz ...

Reification and the Marxian critique of commodities The word reification comes from the Latin res (thing, in the sense of object), and as a concept, was developed by the Marxist 'philosophers' in the ...

Some social scientists have a term, “reification,” for the process by which the effects of a political arrangement of power and resources start to seem like objective, inevitable facts about ...

Recently, the models, not the patient decision, appear to have captured our primary attention. Understanding the concept of reification and the limits of mathematical models may show how we got here, ...

Long time readers know that I'm generally OK with reification as long as we don't take it too seriously. And we do that all the time. An "object" is really only an "object" in a human-sense. Reduced ...

Courtesy the artist and Mattress Factory What, exactly, is reification? The exhibition notes for the show of the same name at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh through November define it like so ...

I’ve previously noted how Trump, on the campaign trail, will often use the rhetorical strategy of reification (which comes from the Latin word for thing, res, and in this context means “to ...