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But also, and perhaps most importantly, for not believing in the reification of the work yourself, but that the honor bestowed on you is the responsibility and challenge of continual growth, supreme formal ambition, and new methods.
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Ocean Vuong
june 4, Literary Hub, 4 June 2025
Orozco’s stickers of abstraction posed the question of whether abstraction—denigrated to its lowest possible level—could now serve as a last sign of resistance and redemption from the totalitarian conditions of reification.
—Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Artforum, 1 June 2025
Since Serial first ignited the true-crime podcast boom in 2014, the genre’s heaviest hitters—podcasts like My Favorite Murder and Crime Junkie—have come under fire for their reification of policing and the prison-industrial complex, among other issues.
—Keely Weiss, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Aug. 2020
His movie is basically a reification of 1950s-style American toughness: us versus them, fighting against invaders.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2022
Dangerous demagogues use reification to position opposition as less than human, thereby denying their standing to criticize or object.
—Jennifer Mercieca, The Conversation, 19 June 2020
Does the reification of objectivity and detachment in the discipline serve to reinforce status hierarchies more than produce sound science?
—WSJ, 12 Sep. 2018
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Ocean Vuong
june 4, Literary Hub, 4 June 2025
Orozco’s stickers of abstraction posed the question of whether abstraction—denigrated to its lowest possible level—could now serve as a last sign of resistance and redemption from the totalitarian conditions of reification.
—Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Artforum, 1 June 2025
Since Serial first ignited the true-crime podcast boom in 2014, the genre’s heaviest hitters—podcasts like My Favorite Murder and Crime Junkie—have come under fire for their reification of policing and the prison-industrial complex, among other issues.
—Keely Weiss, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Aug. 2020
His movie is basically a reification of 1950s-style American toughness: us versus them, fighting against invaders.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2022
Dangerous demagogues use reification to position opposition as less than human, thereby denying their standing to criticize or object.
—Jennifer Mercieca, The Conversation, 19 June 2020
Does the reification of objectivity and detachment in the discipline serve to reinforce status hierarchies more than produce sound science?
—WSJ, 12 Sep. 2018
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“Reification.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reification. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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