reification

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Everything is rated according to its monetary value and turned into an object of consumption — nothing appears to escape its regressive spiral of commodification, social atomization, and reification.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2021

The third strategy of division you discuss is reification — in this case, meaning treating people like objects.

From Salon • Jul. 4, 2020

The evolution of this idea finds its reification in his 22nd-century London, where nanotechnology makes all matter malleable.

From Slate • Dec. 15, 2014

“I always thought souls were a mistaken reification of patterns of brain activity. You mean I really do have a soul?”

From Nature • Mar. 19, 2014

Looking at the development of the medieval university, one can say that it was the embodiment of the reification of language, of the Greek logos and of the Roman ratio.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai