Activity

Reification means "that a relation between people takes on the character of a thing and thus acquires 'phantom objectivity', an autonomy that seems so strictly rational and all-embracing as to conceal every trace of its fundamental nature: the relation between people"

Herbert Marcuse (1955) argues that the performance principle means that Thanatos governs humans and society and that alienation unleashes aggressive dreams within humans

This relation was however considered necessary for progress; its potential sublation was not seen as a historical potential enabled by the development of the productive forces

Aristotle made a distinction between poíesis (the creation of works from nature) and praxis (self-determined action)

the deceptively attractive idea that finance is a simulacrum and that what is needed is a return to the true economy