When a young woman cop in the movie Kathal streaming on an OTT, counters an upper caste man by normalising the idea of lower caste people as thieves, what we witnessed as viewers is the process of ...

Georg Lukács, a Hungarian Marxist philosopher born in 1885, made significant contributions to the understanding of economic determinism, particularly in relation to art and literature. Lukács’ ...

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Up till now, we have considered radical thought as a critique of the substance of Marxism: of the content of Marx's ideas and, after 1917, of their realization. We have not yet looked at the critique ...

Stewart uses the term “thingification” as a simple explanation of reification. Simply put, it is a way of viewing the world in which processes are treated as real things, just as if they had a ...

Lukács argued that reification permeated all aspects of capitalist society, including its cultural and artistic expressions. In Lukács’ view, literature and art under capitalism often reflected this ...