Fetish
Princeton Architecture Journal Volume 4
Edited by Greg Lynn, Edward Mitchell and Sarah Whiting
Princeton Architectural Press (1992)
Marx, Adorno, Benjamin and Baudrillard have all used the term fetish in reference to the commodity culture resulting from a capitalist economy and society. In this collection of essays Jeffrey Kipnis, Hal Foster, Robert Somol, Mark Wigley, Jennifer Bloomer, Tracy Brown, Ann Bergren and Emily Apter examines architecture’s relationship to the problem of the fetish. Can we really take up the problem of the fetish without repeating the problem
