Here Johannes has assembled a feverish and explicit set of images and ideas revolving around power, fetish, porn, media, violence, translation, punishment, performance, and aesthetics.
Norman Foster also creates power fetishes, but they are unquestionably works of architecture.
We were stunned, didn't move for one second and then realized what had been going on: this fucking guy had some kind of dark, violent power-fetish when it comes to small, blonde women and was getting off on this.
But it's pretty wonderful, the power of that fetish.
One museum director refused to exhibit important masks because he believed in their fetish power.
This last piece has the look of the ritual artefact of Bickerton's tropical island obsession, creating a power object or fetish (as islanders do) with found objects (fish, flowers, beads) that is the more hypnotic for its solemn parody – silver vestal offering a hammerhead shark, coconuts in her Indonesian canoe.
In a society where politics are inextricably linked to religion, the real holders of power are the fetish priests.
Just as, in some religions, an object invested with supernatural powers becomes a fetish for those who worship it, so commodities under capitalism are accorded magical powers and illusory autonomy.
Radicalizing Strauss's arguments, Feuerbach suggested that the attributes of God are a projection of the powers of the human species as a whole; religious orthodoxy turned these powers into a fetish or object of worship, treating them as a transcendent, divine person.
By 1934 Benjamin had a new, more philosophically ambitious plan: using the same method of montage, he would trace the cultural superstructure of 19th-century France back to commodities and their power to become fetishes.
Dipoto has steered the Angels away from their fetish for "power arms," both with trades for closer Huston Street and left-handed specialist Joe Thatcher, with the off-season signing of setup man Joe Smith, and with the use of such middle relievers as Mike Morin and Fernando Salas.
