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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... dimensions of subject constitution . In other words , the subject is reduced to a mere product surrounding the indefin- able body , lacking the autonomy that would allow a ' producing ' relation- ship with the outside and with itself ...
... dimensions of subject constitution . In other words , the subject is reduced to a mere product surrounding the indefin- able body , lacking the autonomy that would allow a ' producing ' relation- ship with the outside and with itself ...
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... dimensions , and for both sides of individuation - as separation and as self - completion . - The story takes off from the sensory and sensual body ( Chapter 2 ) moving then to a topological characterization of the role of the ...
... dimensions , and for both sides of individuation - as separation and as self - completion . - The story takes off from the sensory and sensual body ( Chapter 2 ) moving then to a topological characterization of the role of the ...
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... dimensions , and for both sides of individuation - as separation and as self - completion . Beginning with the sensory and sensual body I shall proceed into the ' topology ' of body openings which allows us to build a bridge from the ...
... dimensions , and for both sides of individuation - as separation and as self - completion . Beginning with the sensory and sensual body I shall proceed into the ' topology ' of body openings which allows us to build a bridge from the ...
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... the possibility to control the flows from outside in - at least in principle . This is precisely the other dimension of the bodily control which Norbert Elias ( 1982 ) fails to thematize when BODY , SELF AND CULTURE 13.
... the possibility to control the flows from outside in - at least in principle . This is precisely the other dimension of the bodily control which Norbert Elias ( 1982 ) fails to thematize when BODY , SELF AND CULTURE 13.
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... dimension of the mouth may be characterized as follows : eating itself involves a culturally structured activity in form of a shared ( ritual ) meal , a certain kind of bidirectionality moulded by the principle of ' to eat and be eaten ...
... dimension of the mouth may be characterized as follows : eating itself involves a culturally structured activity in form of a shared ( ritual ) meal , a certain kind of bidirectionality moulded by the principle of ' to eat and be eaten ...
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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