Part I. The factory, the coat, the piano, and the "Negro slave": on the Afro-Atlantic sources of Marx's fetish
The Afro-Atlantic context of historical materialism
The "Negro slave" in Marx's labor theory of value
Marx's fetishization of people and things
Part II. The acropolis, the couch, the fur hat, and the "savage": on Freud's ambivalent fetish
The fetishes that assimilated Jewish men make
The fetish as an architecture of solidarity and conflict
The castrator and the castrated in the fetishes of psychoanalysis
Part III. Pots, packets, beads, and foreigners: the making and the meaning of the real-life "fetish"
The contrary ontologies of two revolutions
The madeness of gods and other people
Conclusion: Eshu's hat, or an Afro-Atlantic theory of theory.
