Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
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The Commodity Fetishism in Hiphop Culture
i think there's a lot of really interesting stuff that we can talk about when it comes to commodity fetishism. When you go to a party and you have lean, not only are you drinking the drug, but there's a whole aesthetic associated with it. So i'm representing myself to somebody as that thing, but its mediated, righ. You're merely representing yourself to somebody else. I was watching something at the very end of last night. A vice documentary on lean, right on on what is known in hippop culture as sip and sir up. It goes back like u g k and pimp c rest ind peace,. But basically this idea of how how hiphop culture itself
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