William Pietz
Biographic Data
| ID | 158733 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Pietz |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Pietz |
| SIGNATURE | PIETZ W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Electoral Reform Working Group of the Green Party of California; national Coordinating Committee of the Green Party of the United States. [email protected]. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 365 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Fetishism and aesthetics
The Problem of the Fetish
"The Problem of the Fetish gathers William Pietz's innovative writing on the fetish object and the history of the "fetish" as a concept. Engaging extensively with historical documents, Pietz traces the genealogy of fetishism from encounters between European colonizers and African communities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the emerging social sciences. Discussing the role of fetishism in anthropology, political economy, psychiatry, …
New Asian Marxisms
Contributors. Tani Barlow, Michael Dutton, D. R. Howland, Dai Jinhua, Marshall Johnson, Liu Kang, Sugiyama Mitsunobu, You-me Park, William Pietz, Claudia Pozzana, Alessandro Russo, Sanjay Seth, Gi-Wook Shin, Jing Wang
Material Considerations
If Harr emphasizes that things become social objects only within particular storylines, Pietz makes the reverse point about the essential materiality of social relationships, especially contractual ones, e.g. as expressed in the legal history of the 'material consideration'. Departing from a similar conception of the performative micro-reproduction of social order and the communicative objectification of social facts, he argues that a theory of f…
Death of the Deodand
The Future of Treason
Capitalism and Perversion
Research Article| May 01 1995 Capitalism and Perversion: Reflections on the Fetishism of Excess in the 1980s William Pietz William Pietz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1995) 3 (2): 537–565. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-3-2-537 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation William Pietz; Capitalism and Perversion: Reflections on the Fetishism of Excess in the 1980s. positions 1 …
The Spirit of Civilization
Exhibiting Cultures
Totalitarianism and the Lessons of History
Anders Stephanson's Comment on my The 'Post-Colonialism' of Cold War Discourse (Social Text 19/20, was as much an outburst of indignation as an argument criticizing my scholarship. Believing that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, and also that the current identity crisis among the academic disciplines, often expressed in the form of heated defenses of methodological professionalism, has special significance for intellectuals wh…
The Problem of the Fetish, IIIa
The "Post-Colonialism" of Cold War Discourse
The idea of totalitarianism and the discourse of the cold war would seem to bear at most a negative relation to colonial discourse. By translating all political events and social struggle anywhere in the world into the master code of U.S./Soviet confrontation, there remains neither room nor need for the sort of colonial discourse so heavily relied on by Western states during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While I am overstating the…
The Problem of the Fetish, II
The Problem of the Fetish, I
The Problem of the Fetish, I
The Problem of the Fetish, II
The Problem of the Fetish, IIIa
The "Post-Colonialism" of Cold War Discourse
The idea of totalitarianism and the discourse of the cold war would seem to bear at most a negative relation to colonial discourse. By translating all political events and social struggle anywhere in the world into the master code of U.S./Soviet confrontation, there remains neither room nor need for the sort of colonial discourse so heavily relied on by Western states during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While I am overstating the…
Material Considerations
If Harr emphasizes that things become social objects only within particular storylines, Pietz makes the reverse point about the essential materiality of social relationships, especially contractual ones, e.g. as expressed in the legal history of the 'material consideration'. Departing from a similar conception of the performative micro-reproduction of social order and the communicative objectification of social facts, he argues that a theory of f…
The Spirit of Civilization
Death of the Deodand
Capitalism and Perversion
Research Article| May 01 1995 Capitalism and Perversion: Reflections on the Fetishism of Excess in the 1980s William Pietz William Pietz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1995) 3 (2): 537–565. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-3-2-537 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation William Pietz; Capitalism and Perversion: Reflections on the Fetishism of Excess in the 1980s. positions 1 …
The Problem of the Fetish, I
The Problem of the Fetish, II
The Problem of the Fetish, IIIa
The "Post-Colonialism" of Cold War Discourse
The idea of totalitarianism and the discourse of the cold war would seem to bear at most a negative relation to colonial discourse. By translating all political events and social struggle anywhere in the world into the master code of U.S./Soviet confrontation, there remains neither room nor need for the sort of colonial discourse so heavily relied on by Western states during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While I am overstating the…
Totalitarianism and the Lessons of History
Anders Stephanson's Comment on my The 'Post-Colonialism' of Cold War Discourse (Social Text 19/20, was as much an outburst of indignation as an argument criticizing my scholarship. Believing that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, and also that the current identity crisis among the academic disciplines, often expressed in the form of heated defenses of methodological professionalism, has special significance for intellectuals wh…
Exhibiting Cultures
Capitalism and Perversion
Research Article| May 01 1995 Capitalism and Perversion: Reflections on the Fetishism of Excess in the 1980s William Pietz William Pietz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1995) 3 (2): 537–565. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-3-2-537 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation William Pietz; Capitalism and Perversion: Reflections on the Fetishism of Excess in the 1980s. positions 1 …
The Spirit of Civilization
Death of the Deodand
The Future of Treason
New Asian Marxisms
Contributors. Tani Barlow, Michael Dutton, D. R. Howland, Dai Jinhua, Marshall Johnson, Liu Kang, Sugiyama Mitsunobu, You-me Park, William Pietz, Claudia Pozzana, Alessandro Russo, Sanjay Seth, Gi-Wook Shin, Jing Wang
Material Considerations
If Harr emphasizes that things become social objects only within particular storylines, Pietz makes the reverse point about the essential materiality of social relationships, especially contractual ones, e.g. as expressed in the legal history of the 'material consideration'. Departing from a similar conception of the performative micro-reproduction of social order and the communicative objectification of social facts, he argues that a theory of f…
The Problem of the Fetish
"The Problem of the Fetish gathers William Pietz's innovative writing on the fetish object and the history of the "fetish" as a concept. Engaging extensively with historical documents, Pietz traces the genealogy of fetishism from encounters between European colonizers and African communities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the emerging social sciences. Discussing the role of fetishism in anthropology, political economy, psychiatry, …
Fetishism and aesthetics
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