The Fetishization of People and Their Objects: Using Lovemaps to View “Style” From the New York Times Magazine

For that matter, how can we think of fetishism without the impact of cities, of certain streets and parks, of redlight districts and “cheap amusements,” or the seductions of department store counters, piled high with desirable and glamorous goods … ? To me, fetishism raises all sorts of issues concerning shifts in the manufacture of objects, the historical and social specificities of control and skin and social etiquette, or ambiguously experienced body invasions and minutely graduated hierarchies. (Rubin & Butler, 1994, p. 79)