James Martel

James Martel is a professor in and the chair of the Department of Political Science, San Francisco State University.
Anti-fetishism: Notes on the Thought of Walter Benjamin

Anti-fetishism: Notes on the Thought of Walter Benjamin

Although Walter Benjamin doesn’t always directly reference the notion of political fetishism, it can be argued that this concept underlies everything that he writes. Benjamin’s concept of the “phantasmagoria,” that miasma of misrepresentation that stands for reality...