Re: reification, agency

In a message dated 5/13/98 1:50:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
H_SHOLAR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

<< regardless of lukacs, marx, heidegger or adorno,
 i'd appreciate a lucid discussion of reification
 here in "the very latest stages of capitalism"
 --heh, heh, heh--
 i think the term self-reified about 20 years ago. >>

Reification is nothing but believing that saying makes it so.  Reification is
a form of falsehood when someone makes a statement that is merely a false
belief in the wish that others will believe it is true.  It is akin to rumor
and false accusation and advertisement.
Reification is exploitation: to claim that what is really abstract is in fact
a concrete reality,
when it is not.  

Vunch