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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... modes of ' being in the world ' ( Merleau - Ponty , 1981 ) – the body seems to be simultaneously highly articulated ... mode of objectivizing the body in a certain epistemic discourse . Then again , my focus on the body in the present ...
... modes of ' being in the world ' ( Merleau - Ponty , 1981 ) – the body seems to be simultaneously highly articulated ... mode of objectivizing the body in a certain epistemic discourse . Then again , my focus on the body in the present ...
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... modes of thematization , as something subsumed to the Order , and , on the other hand , to the fates of corporeality or bodiliness as the experientiality of the body which is always related to the former . Thus , the distinction between ...
... modes of thematization , as something subsumed to the Order , and , on the other hand , to the fates of corporeality or bodiliness as the experientiality of the body which is always related to the former . Thus , the distinction between ...
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... modes of interaction mediated by the apertures of the ( body ) surface and which ends up in an experienced continuity ... mode of existence which defines the subject – in a more or less articulated manner as a separate being . - This is ...
... modes of interaction mediated by the apertures of the ( body ) surface and which ends up in an experienced continuity ... mode of existence which defines the subject – in a more or less articulated manner as a separate being . - This is ...
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... mode of thematizing the relationship between corporeal- ity and self - formation is closer to the thinking of those post - structuralists who proceed , though critically , from the basic psychoanalytical formu- lations ; from Lacan for ...
... mode of thematizing the relationship between corporeal- ity and self - formation is closer to the thinking of those post - structuralists who proceed , though critically , from the basic psychoanalytical formu- lations ; from Lacan for ...
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... mode inspired by the Derridean scheme of ' supplementarity ' . Departing from the naturalistic ( need satisfaction ) and productionistic ( consumption as an effect of production ) model , the argumentation proceeds to an analysis of the ...
... mode inspired by the Derridean scheme of ' supplementarity ' . Departing from the naturalistic ( need satisfaction ) and productionistic ( consumption as an effect of production ) model , the argumentation proceeds to an analysis of the ...
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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