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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... Foucault ( 1981 , 1987 and 1988 ) was clearly of major significance in the development of a general analysis of the body . In addition to the perspective of Foucault on the discipline of the body in a carceral society , social theories ...
... Foucault ( 1981 , 1987 and 1988 ) was clearly of major significance in the development of a general analysis of the body . In addition to the perspective of Foucault on the discipline of the body in a carceral society , social theories ...
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... Foucault on the historical construction of sexuality has once more played a major role in this area . Foucault's work was initially directed towards the various institutions , practices and techniques by which the body is disciplined ...
... Foucault on the historical construction of sexuality has once more played a major role in this area . Foucault's work was initially directed towards the various institutions , practices and techniques by which the body is disciplined ...
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... Foucault's treatment of the self as merely the effect of discipline and technologies of the self . Foucault's continuing commitment to structuralist forms of analysis subordinated not only the phenomenology of experience and the sensual ...
... Foucault's treatment of the self as merely the effect of discipline and technologies of the self . Foucault's continuing commitment to structuralist forms of analysis subordinated not only the phenomenology of experience and the sensual ...
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... Foucault , M. ( 1981 ) The History of Sexuality , Vol . 1 An Introduction . Harmondsworth : Penguin . Foucault , M. ( 1987 ) The Use of Pleasure . The History of Sexuality , Vol . 2. Harmondsworth : Penguin . Foucault , M. ( 1988 ) The ...
... Foucault , M. ( 1981 ) The History of Sexuality , Vol . 1 An Introduction . Harmondsworth : Penguin . Foucault , M. ( 1987 ) The Use of Pleasure . The History of Sexuality , Vol . 2. Harmondsworth : Penguin . Foucault , M. ( 1988 ) The ...
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... Foucault . London : Tavistock . Merleau - Ponty , M. ( 1962 ) Phenomenology of Perception . London : Routledge & Kegan Paul . Miles , M.R. ( 1986 ) ' The Virgin's One Bare Breast : Female Nudity and Religious Meaning In Tuscan Early ...
... Foucault . London : Tavistock . Merleau - Ponty , M. ( 1962 ) Phenomenology of Perception . London : Routledge & Kegan Paul . Miles , M.R. ( 1986 ) ' The Virgin's One Bare Breast : Female Nudity and Religious Meaning In Tuscan Early ...
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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