Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

en un aura fetichizante

English translation:

in a fetishistic/fetishizing aura

Added to glossary by Mónica Algazi
Apr 9, 2016 15:29
8 yrs ago
Spanish term

en un aura fetichizante

Spanish to English Art/Literary Journalism Article about an artist
Context:

En otros casos se explicita la intención museográfica de que ciertas piezas de claro estatus etnográfico (artefacto/abrecartas, artefacto/libro, artefacto/ladrillo, artefacto/souvenir) se incluyan en un aura fetichizante que las predispone a ser leídas bajo códigos diferentes a los que demanda el uso corriente de esos objetos.

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Apr 11, 2016 20:11: Mónica Algazi Created KOG entry

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in a fetish-like aura/fetish-like importance

The Construction of Professional Discourse
https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=1317890035
B.L. Gunnarsson, ‎Per Linell, ‎Bengt Nordberg - 2014 - ‎Language Arts & Disciplines
Texts have in fact retained a fetish-like importance which, ironically, has become ... Loss of the aura of the document in the electronic era Like all physical objects ...
The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, ...
https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0822323915
Laura U. Marks - 2000 - ‎Performing Arts
The works discussed in this chapter bring the fetishistic, auratic ... practices that both materializes and dissolves the fetishlike and fossil-like quality of the image.
Legendary Hawai'i and the Politics of Place: Tradition, ...
https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0812201175
Cristina Bacchilega - 2011 - ‎Business & Economics
... but—fashioned as a pin or pendant—it had become a precious souvenir, its fetishlike, nostalgic aura making it an appropriate promotional image.21 But the ...

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oh,

sorry


fetishistic aura


Sharpe: "The Logo as Fetish: Marxist Themes in Naomi ...
clogic.eserver.org/2003/sharpe.html
by M Sharpe - ‎Cited by 2 - ‎Related articles
Indeed, I take it that this is what the Marxian critique of commodity fetishism in .... in the logo's absolute subordination of use value to its fetishistic aura, the as it ...
Note from asker:
Thank you, Liz!
And yes, something along the line of 'embued with a fetishistic aura' may fit the bill here.
Peer comment(s):

agree philgoddard
2 hrs
agree Muriel Vasconcellos
8 hrs
agree Marcelo González
18 hrs
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in a fetishizing/fetishistic aura

I believe you can use the literal equivalent:

https://goo.gl/IJ2b2i
"...that the corporeal power of the Blanketmen had disseminated its fetishizing aura to all parties of the Northern Ireland conflict."

https://goo.gl/3kSFjE
"The Decadent Imagination in Russia's Fin de Siecle Olga Matich. against the whole, I would add that decadence infused the part with a fetishizing aura."

http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=453
"Every commodity has a fetishistic aura (a pro jection of its exchange-value) that far exceeds its material and utilitarian properties as a mere ob ject (its use-value)."
Note from asker:
Thanks, Cecilia!
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(have) fetish connotations

The term had to fit the preceding verb, so maybe this could work

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And why not your suggestion 'are imbued with'...
Note from asker:
Thanks, Ormiston.
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