How I love watching workers stocking commodities…
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It’s another kind of farming: What is needed here; what is not needed there; how much of this is gone; how much of that has remained. Replenish the refrigerators. Seed the shelves. Circulate the commodities with your own hands—and not with some electronic device. Such is the honor at the heart of this handiwork.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...

11 replies on “Fetishism Today”

  1. I can’t point to anything specific about the post to give the this impression, but after reading it I really felt that you were a creep.

  2. chas you were doing so well those last coupla posts. making sense, having a relevant point, inspiring my respect. then this. is it really so hard to stay with relevance? does it start to feel too uncomfortable?

  3. charles mudede is an elitist, pretentious, asshole. your writing is mind-numbingly absurd and self-aggrandizing. do you really think that you impress people?

  4. if you get your kicks sneaking around stores and secretly photographing the employees you might not want to put it all over the internet.

    jus’ saying.

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