Marxism vs. Graham Harman’s object-oriented ontology: is it commodity fetishism par excellence?

A hotel is presented as a beautiful, clean, luxurious commodity to its visitors, when in reality every bit is labor done by workers cleaning, fixing, maintaining - otherwise it would collapse in a day as a dead building.

Same for chocolate, smartphones, social media, often sustained by third-word exploitation.

But OOO would want to see “allure” in these, so how is it compatible with constructive theory?

Posted Aug 12, 2026, 2:04 PM UTC

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