Reification cannot be eliminated because language itself reifies

Evidence

But I don’t think the aim should be to replace capitalism’s fake anti-reification with a “real” anti-reification. Reification can’t be entirely eliminated. I take this to be one of the important lessons that Lacanian psychoanalysis has to teach. Being a speaking subject at all involves a minimal reification; the big Other is coterminous with language itself. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2077

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies Fisher’s revision of reification: not an eliminable distortion but the minimal condition of speaking subjectivity.
• XREF: connects to: Language itself has become a site where reified theory falsifies lived experience — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1100; Reification is an illusion, so grounds for refusal persist — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 884; Radical linguistic discipline both destroys reified language and submits to a purer one

Broader Connections

• Language itself has become a site where reified theory falsifies lived experience #expands (0.88) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1100
• Reification is an illusion, so grounds for refusal persist #complicates (0.82) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 884
• Radical linguistic discipline both destroys reified language and submits to a purer one #qualifies (0.76)