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This article explores how ontological assumptions are entangled with strategies of knowing and not knowing the world. It argues that Western science and economy are based on a peculiar form of objectivity that brackets off a wide range of relational properties of the material world. This objectivism is contrasted with animism and fetishism, which offer alternative ways of knowing the world. It is suggested that the assumed divide between humans and things that underlies Western notions of objectivity is ultimately untenable, and that animism and fetishism may offer valuable insights into the ways in which the material world resists such compartmentalization.

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