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 xi
... experience cannot be isolated to a particular field subdiscipline or area of study . In the development of this approach , an implicit philosophy anthropology has been profoundly important especially in the work of writers like Arnold ...
... experience cannot be isolated to a particular field subdiscipline or area of study . In the development of this approach , an implicit philosophy anthropology has been profoundly important especially in the work of writers like Arnold ...
Page xiii
... experience and the sensual body , but also removed any possibility of resistance or opposition to disciplinary practices . Perhaps to Pasi Falk's analysis of the consuming self , we might add the notion that for the self in a consumer ...
... experience and the sensual body , but also removed any possibility of resistance or opposition to disciplinary practices . Perhaps to Pasi Falk's analysis of the consuming self , we might add the notion that for the self in a consumer ...
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... experienced continuity of ' me being in the world ' distinguished from the experience of ' me being ( identical with ) the world ' , in other words , a mode of existence which defines the subject – in a more or less articulated manner ...
... experienced continuity of ' me being in the world ' distinguished from the experience of ' me being ( identical with ) the world ' , in other words , a mode of existence which defines the subject – in a more or less articulated manner ...
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... experience . The emphasis in the language of advertising shifts towards a ' rhetoric ' which does not ( have to ) make ( falsifiable ) promises or give ( falsifiable ) evidence but instead creates representations which are experienced ...
... experience . The emphasis in the language of advertising shifts towards a ' rhetoric ' which does not ( have to ) make ( falsifiable ) promises or give ( falsifiable ) evidence but instead creates representations which are experienced ...
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... bodiliness and purification of aesthetic experience - nevertheless , the common denominator remains : the prioritiz- - ation of distance as a necessary precondition for reflection and Chapter 2 - Body, Self and Culture.
... bodiliness and purification of aesthetic experience - nevertheless , the common denominator remains : the prioritiz- - ation of distance as a necessary precondition for reflection and Chapter 2 - Body, Self and Culture.
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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