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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... edible versus inedible - that which can be accepted into the body and that which must be kept outside it – in relation to corresponding bodily ( sensory ) reactions . Chapter 5 ( ' Consuming Desire ' ) traces the discursive genealogy of ...
... edible versus inedible - that which can be accepted into the body and that which must be kept outside it – in relation to corresponding bodily ( sensory ) reactions . Chapter 5 ( ' Consuming Desire ' ) traces the discursive genealogy of ...
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... edible versus inedible to more subtle evaluative distinctions . Nevertheless , the weakening of strong alimentary codes , and rigid cultural categorizations in general ( Order ) , not only grants the boundaries of the individual body ...
... edible versus inedible to more subtle evaluative distinctions . Nevertheless , the weakening of strong alimentary codes , and rigid cultural categorizations in general ( Order ) , not only grants the boundaries of the individual body ...
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... edible / inedible . This is the situation preceding actual object - relations , in a representational sense , and thus the difference is experienced only as ( unrepresentable ) deviations or fluc- tuations in the continuous state of ...
... edible / inedible . This is the situation preceding actual object - relations , in a representational sense , and thus the difference is experienced only as ( unrepresentable ) deviations or fluc- tuations in the continuous state of ...
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... edible versus inedible ( see above pp . 16–17 ) . But , of course , cultural representations and categorizations are much more than just the cosmos divided into two parts . The categorization grows both in extensive and intensive ...
... edible versus inedible ( see above pp . 16–17 ) . But , of course , cultural representations and categorizations are much more than just the cosmos divided into two parts . The categorization grows both in extensive and intensive ...
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Contents
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10 | |
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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