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fetishize
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fet·ish·ize  (ft-shz)
tr.v. fet·ish·ized, fet·ish·iz·ing, fet·ish·iz·es
To make a fetish of: "The American public schools . . . have in the space of a few years gone from neglecting computers to fetishizing them" (James Traub).
fetishize, fetishise [ˈfɛtɪʃˌaɪz]
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(Psychology) (tr) to be excessively or irrationally devoted to (an object, activity, etc.)
fetishization , fetishisation n
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Verb1.fetishize - make a fetish of
adore - love intensely; "he just adored his wife"


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Both a fetishizing and a fetishized object, the brush symbolizes Noh's self-imposed prohibition of, as well as longing for, the act of painting.
Noh Sang-Kyoon: Gallery Simon by Chung, Shinyoung / Artforum International
There is still cause for hope in Iraq, particularly after the elections (though Sharansky himself warns against fetishizing elections when other preconditions for freedom are absent).
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Whatever the philosophical arguments against fetishizing the negative (or positive, as with slides), be it endowed with the cult value of heroic field-work, the bourgeois rhetoric of empiricist transparency, or the materiality of a transcendental signifier, the original is indeed a sacred object.
Tarrying with our negatives (and positives) by Apter, Andrew / African Arts
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