✵ fetish (n.) "object regarded with awe as having superior powers or being the representative of an ideal that may be worshipped through it," orig. 1610s, from Portuguese feitiço "charm, sorcery, allurement," noun use of an adjective meaning “artificial.” The Portuguese adjective is from the Latin facticius "made by art, artificial," from facere "to make, do, produce.”
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CIVIL SOCIETY UNFOLDS IN THE SPACE CHARTERED BY THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LIBERTY AND PROPERTY, DRIVEN BY THE ILLUSION OF ITS POSITIVITY. HOWEVER, TO UNDERSTAND LIBERTY IN TERMS OF PROPERTY IS TO IRREMEDIABLY DWELL WITHIN AN ATROPHIC DIMENSION OF FETISHISM.
With contributions by Myour Gape, Clemente Ciarrocca and Yanne Horas, DEHISCENCE is a column taking the cornerstones of rationality through dehiscent rupture: the spontaneous breaking and opening of flowers and wounds along a built-in line of weakness, causing the release of what had been held and growing within.
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Fig. 1: THE FETISH DIAGRAM — v1.1: Ogival Closure, by Myour Gape.
