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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... boundaries . It acts as the basic model for cosmological schemes and not just the mere anthropomorphism of the so - called primitive cosmologies but also as a less obvious basic scheme rendering conceptual means to conceive of the Order ...
... boundaries . It acts as the basic model for cosmological schemes and not just the mere anthropomorphism of the so - called primitive cosmologies but also as a less obvious basic scheme rendering conceptual means to conceive of the Order ...
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... boundaries and its position in the larger whole ( community or society ) . Even the transgressive manifestations of corporeality which momentarily collapse the Order - such as the carnivalistic inversion of social hierarchies or the ...
... boundaries and its position in the larger whole ( community or society ) . Even the transgressive manifestations of corporeality which momentarily collapse the Order - such as the carnivalistic inversion of social hierarchies or the ...
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... boundaries or limits of the body are thematized both from outside - in and inside - out : ' known from an exterior , the limits of the body as object ; known from an interior , the limits of its physical extension into space ' ( Stewart ...
... boundaries or limits of the body are thematized both from outside - in and inside - out : ' known from an exterior , the limits of the body as object ; known from an interior , the limits of its physical extension into space ' ( Stewart ...
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... boundaries and the distinction of inside and outside is right from the start also a mental process which defines the ' me ' in relation to the ' not- me ' in terms of mental representations . From a cultural and social perspective the ...
... boundaries and the distinction of inside and outside is right from the start also a mental process which defines the ' me ' in relation to the ' not- me ' in terms of mental representations . From a cultural and social perspective the ...
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... boundaries and the flows passing through its sensory openings . Chapter 4 ( " Towards an Historical Anthropology of Taste ' ) thematizes in more detail the relationship between ' sensations and representations ' in the primal scene of ...
... boundaries and the flows passing through its sensory openings . Chapter 4 ( " Towards an Historical Anthropology of Taste ' ) thematizes in more detail the relationship between ' sensations and representations ' in the primal scene of ...
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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