Open sourcing of the news such that CNN, which used to only report to us, now asks us to report for them. The fetish of openness even extends to the kitchens of fancy restaurants, where you can now witness how it's all done. Once again, this open source ethic is a provocation to the traditional notion of writing.
The story gave them back their independence. That narrative of independence remains as powerful, as false, as necessary as ever in the Dakotas. It has become our fetish replacing the lost object of desire, the impossible place that never was. You have been told that there is nothing there. I tell you there is too much. Even when there is nothing, there is too much of it. And who am I? I'm an old politician pretty
They haven't seen him in two months and they leave food outside of his or her door and they're shutting down the government. You might as well fetishize it now.
Whether it's in content, in YouTube, whether it's on search, I think that the biggest tragedy of the history of the web was our fetishization of free. I think that has been the most destructive mistake.
We have better data than we used to. Data sometimes gets fetishized, and probably more often it gets maligned as somehow inhuman, which is obviously silly. Data is just the plural of fact collected in a way that allows for meaningful comparisons when it's done right, but we really
It was a fair call. There were Threep fetishists out there. They weren't really my thing, I have to say.
Well, then we get energy that is not dense, but diffuse. Alternative energy fetishes have so greatly consumed the public imagination, but the most vital, endurable solutions go overlooked and underfunded.
So one of the themes and one of the sort of characteristics that sort of struck me at this time, it was because I'd seen this "New York Magazine" article about that whole failure fetish coming out of Silicon Valley. And I thought, well, I understand failure.
Let's move back to the reason that we wanted to have this conversation today and that is Jason Arde and his story. You've written that Arde was fetishized by people with different agendas. What do you see as those different agendas and what in your view did they both get wrong?
being proactive and anticipating the challenges of what it would mean to actually get it deployed on the scale of things relatively very well. It's like we're fetishizing this stuff.
Very, very few people are actually willing to talk about these things publicly, in large part because most folks are either aware of it in a very sort of fetishistic way or a voyeuristic way, like, a real life intersex person is talking. My god, I've never seen this before, which does not create good dialogic space.
Yes. These are the ribs of pigs. And this is one of the weirdest fetishes of barbecue. What is that stack of stuff in the back?
Both Polaroid and Apple were built on the spot where liberal arts meet high technology. Both had cultures that really almost fetishized industrial design. They insisted on objects that feel good in the hand, and sort of demand that you pick them up when you see them.
Rachel Maddow or Chris Matthews or or or or Oberman. It's basically like wall-to-wall prison. And always wondering what the like fetishistic fascination of Americans is for guys in the joint women in the joint. I don't know if it's just somebody we can feel better than or they just like looking at guys in their jockeys, you
But because fairness, fair skin-- fair, which means beautiful, also means pale. And that was very much the sort of fetish in the Middle Ages was to be pale, pale, pale, like as pale as you possibly could be.
And some people think that this explains the foot fetish .
Like for instance, "foot fetish ," or other things like that?
Or maybe the psychiatry profession has a kind of strange fetish to label increasingly normal behavior as mental disorders.
the charts in terms of being celebrated and fetishized maybe a little too far in some ways.
So, I think people fetishize the elite schools.
It's genderless. That guy has a hair fetish .
So if you really cared about your significant other having a foot fetish , you can get that in there.
high stocking; was like the most popular fetish for awhile, might still be, while we were doing our research it was the most common search absolute territory.
just like East Asian bias, fetishization versus discrimination, et cetera, right?
And I thought that was missing with the discussion of intersectionality because it was so fetishized.
Comics-- pop art, the pop art movement fetishized comics.
I think it's not only for women but that there's this fetishization of youth.
stories. He had all these fetishes .
understand mathematics, it tends to fetishize it. People tend to hold quantitative mathy seeming statements in
And it's also a bit of something that's easy to fetishize.
To begin with, nobody eats bread at all. But that's one of the accoutrement, one of the fetishes of great barbecue, is that you're always have to eat it with bread. Or at least my daughter claims that that's my invention, but it's not true.
Ogi Ogas: So that surprised us. I mean we've all heard of foot fetishes and before we did our research there was no conventional wisdom about it, there was no theory about why men
freedom. So I I wonder how you would define the ideal of freedom. I think the fetishization
I actually explore that in the book, why, actually, a lot of people of color can fetishize white people.
Bill Finger, the writer, thought, you know, I created this guy who is basically-- if you believe all this fetishist bat stuff--