a very own object oriented baka?

With baka as the sense and practice of mistaking one thing/element with another.
As objects can be bought and sold; invested and owned -while ideas are less obvious to do as such. (hence the problems of intellectual properties and claims such as: you can destroy my body, but never the idea from which my life stems from!”)

It occurred to me that my “problems” with Objects are much todo – not all – with the invenstive-aesthetics objects have. eg – The quality that allows owning and selling objects.
This quality of objects, in my mind, lends itself for a rather easily implemented and worst – cultivated – socio-economic and cultural apartheid. Am using apartheid because its about prejudice and using that prejudice to divide and rule. A prejudice against a certain culture, or against a certain socio-economic sequence, and using that prejudice to gain social, cultural and economic advantages which, inevitably, go into politics and distributions of imagination technologies.

I thought that perhaps the usage of “apartheid” in a non south-african context might require some qualifications. Hence here are links to other usages of social, cultural and economic apartheid that are not south-african oriented.

https://raisethehammer.org/article/472/economic_apartheid

http://thenewpress.com/books/economic-apartheid-america

http://www.socialjustice.org/pdfs/economicapartheid.pdf || http://www.cspi.org/books/canada-s-economic-apartheid

The long-term trend of cultural apartheid against the gypsy & travelling community

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_apartheid_in_Brazil

http://www.dawn.com/news/1079479

http://www.artistsagainstapartheid.org/?page_id=1811

http://adalahny.org/event/1212/tell-bam-there-no-art-apartheid-boycott-batsheva

http://www.spiked-online.com/review_of_books/article/3359

http://ija.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.85/prod.724

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1571298/Cultural-apartheid-turns-children-off-the-arts.html

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/brian-coleman/2007/08/white-middle-london-proms

http://www.pri.org/stories/2013-04-30/china-past-due-hukou-economic-apartheid

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture-cuts-blog/2011/feb/15/arts-funding-arts-policy || http://www.peshkar.co.uk/latest/2014/1/21/cultural-apartheid

http://www.academia.edu/8371908/Cultural_Apartheid_and_the_Superhighway_across_the_Sky

https://www.facebook.com/dontplayapartheidisrael

Lack Of Interest For Inaugural Boomerang Festival Likened To “Cultural Apartheid”

http://www.lannan.org/art/art-grants/dismantling-cultural-apartheid-conference/

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/may/07/art-aborigines

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11330819

http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704358704576118683913032882

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