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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Page vii
... consumer culture . The evolving interest in the body on the part of sociologists was signalled by such publications as John O'Neill's Five Bodies ( 1985 ) and The Communicative Body ( 1989 ) , Francis Barker's The Tremulous Private Body ...
... consumer culture . The evolving interest in the body on the part of sociologists was signalled by such publications as John O'Neill's Five Bodies ( 1985 ) and The Communicative Body ( 1989 ) , Francis Barker's The Tremulous Private Body ...
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... consumer society the diet assumes an entirely different meaning and focus , namely as an elaboration or amplification of sexuality . The project of the self therefore is intimately bound up with these historical transformations of the ...
... consumer society the diet assumes an entirely different meaning and focus , namely as an elaboration or amplification of sexuality . The project of the self therefore is intimately bound up with these historical transformations of the ...
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... consumer society , it is the body - image that plays the determining role in the evaluation of the self in the public arena ( Schilder , 1964 ) . It is the surface of the body which is the target of advertising and self - promotion ...
... consumer society , it is the body - image that plays the determining role in the evaluation of the self in the public arena ( Schilder , 1964 ) . It is the surface of the body which is the target of advertising and self - promotion ...
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... consumer choice , the political regulation of knowledge , and the constraints on the sovereignty of the consumer . Sociology functioned as a critique of the underlying moral and political assumptions of the operation of markets in civil ...
... consumer choice , the political regulation of knowledge , and the constraints on the sovereignty of the consumer . Sociology functioned as a critique of the underlying moral and political assumptions of the operation of markets in civil ...
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... consumer goods - as representations ( see Chapter 6 ) . So , from the subject's point of view the identity of the distinctions inside / outside and good / bad is broken , structuring the outside as a world of objects at least into two ...
... consumer goods - as representations ( see Chapter 6 ) . So , from the subject's point of view the identity of the distinctions inside / outside and good / bad is broken , structuring the outside as a world of objects at least into two ...
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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