The Consuming BodyThis is a fascinating examination of the relationship between consumption, the idea of the body and the formation of the self. In tracing these connections, The Consuming Body develops a profile of individuality in the late twentieth century - in both its bodily and mental aspects. Pasi Falk offers a major synthesis and critical assessment of the debates surrounding the body, the self and contemporary consumer culture. He explores two fundamental issues for modern social theory - the delineation of modern consumption and the body′s historically changing position in various cultural orders. In the course of his argument he examines both metaphors of consumption and investigates the issues of representation in advertising and pornography. |
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... Derrida - each of them with different points of emphasis ) . Being aware of the ambiguous use of the term ' post - structuralism ' - and of the fact that most of those labelled as such reject such an identity themselves – I shall ...
... Derrida - each of them with different points of emphasis ) . Being aware of the ambiguous use of the term ' post - structuralism ' - and of the fact that most of those labelled as such reject such an identity themselves – I shall ...
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... Derrida and Kristeva , both of whom focus on the intersections of body , self and culture . However , my focus in the present context is more specific than the demarcations between body , self and culture . My specific 6 THE CONSUMING BODY.
... Derrida and Kristeva , both of whom focus on the intersections of body , self and culture . However , my focus in the present context is more specific than the demarcations between body , self and culture . My specific 6 THE CONSUMING BODY.
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... ( Derrida , 1986 : xxxviii ) , as illustrated by Figure 2.1 . The mouth is a ' vestibule ' - of the larynx , as the anatomical terminology goes functioning as an instance of a threefold choice or judgement . The first gate ( a ) controls ...
... ( Derrida , 1986 : xxxviii ) , as illustrated by Figure 2.1 . The mouth is a ' vestibule ' - of the larynx , as the anatomical terminology goes functioning as an instance of a threefold choice or judgement . The first gate ( a ) controls ...
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... ( Derrida , 1986 ; Lehmann , 1983 ) the interpretation points , however , implicitly to an important aspect : whether ... Derrida's différance ) 12 – which stabilizes the oscillation of presence and absence into the distinctions of inside ...
... ( Derrida , 1986 ; Lehmann , 1983 ) the interpretation points , however , implicitly to an important aspect : whether ... Derrida's différance ) 12 – which stabilizes the oscillation of presence and absence into the distinctions of inside ...
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... Derrida has pointed out , the difference can never exist in a pure neutral mode . It always involves an evaluative aspect which grants the first term a defining , and hence , an excluding power over the second , the ' other ' ( Derrida ...
... Derrida has pointed out , the difference can never exist in a pure neutral mode . It always involves an evaluative aspect which grants the first term a defining , and hence , an excluding power over the second , the ' other ' ( Derrida ...
Contents
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Chapter 3 Corporeality and History | 45 |
Chapter 4 Towards an Historical Anthropology of Taste | 68 |
Chapter 5 Consuming Desire | 93 |
on the Genealogy of modern advertising | 151 |
Chapter 7 Pornography and the Representation of Presence | 186 |
References | 218 |
Name Index | 232 |
Subject Index | 235 |
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