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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... role of the body in political discourse . Louis Marin's analysis ( 1988 ) of the king's narrative and the power of the king's body in France might also be taken as a paradigmatic illustration of this approach to sovereignty . The ...
... role of the body in political discourse . Louis Marin's analysis ( 1988 ) of the king's narrative and the power of the king's body in France might also be taken as a paradigmatic illustration of this approach to sovereignty . The ...
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... role of women in society as creative agents through reproduction and subordinates through the patriarchal power of men . These contradictory images of women have often been exaggerated within a religious frame- work where the ...
... role of women in society as creative agents through reproduction and subordinates through the patriarchal power of men . These contradictory images of women have often been exaggerated within a religious frame- work where the ...
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... role in the representation of power and authority in contemporary industrial societies . For example , Emily Martin ( 1987 ) in her The Woman in the Body has presented a fascinating analysis of the relationship between industrial ...
... role in the representation of power and authority in contemporary industrial societies . For example , Emily Martin ( 1987 ) in her The Woman in the Body has presented a fascinating analysis of the relationship between industrial ...
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... role of symbol and culture in the constitution of the social self . By and large the corporeality of the social actor has been , until recent years , neglected in the analysis of social action . The brilliance of Falk's approach to this ...
... role of symbol and culture in the constitution of the social self . By and large the corporeality of the social actor has been , until recent years , neglected in the analysis of social action . The brilliance of Falk's approach to this ...
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... 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 , just as it is the body surfaces which are the site of stigmatization ...
... 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 , just as it is the body surfaces which are the site of stigmatization ...
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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