Meanings (ES + gloss)
cosificación • reificación
The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.
Computer scientists found out how functional reification is in programming languages: they call it ‘object-oriented programming’ […].
The reification of art and religion, a symptom of their historical obsolescence, takes the form of their instrumentalization, their reduction to a mere use value. At this point the…
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