Reification is an illusion, so grounds for refusal persist

Evidence

But if the abstract character of the refusal is the result of total reification, then the concrete ground for refusal must still exist, for reification is an illusion. By the same token, the unification of opposites in the medium of technological rationality must be, in all its reality, an illusory unification, which eliminates neither the contradiction between the growing productivity and its repressive use, nor the vital need for solving the contradiction. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 884

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: In hyperreality no external standpoint remains for critique or resistance. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 109; History as ground must be conceived as an absent cause resisting reification — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 2294; Reification results from forgetting the pain nature inflicts under domination — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 804 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Reification results from forgetting the pain nature inflicts under domination #expands (0.80) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 804