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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... sensory and sensual being ' . The nature of corporeality and embodiment leads directly into the question of the self and the social actor . The characterization of the social actor has been an issue which has dominated the entire ...
... sensory and sensual being ' . The nature of corporeality and embodiment leads directly into the question of the self and the social actor . The characterization of the social actor has been an issue which has dominated the entire ...
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... sensory and sensual being . - But , as I try to explicate further below ( Chapters 3 and 4 ) , the human body as a sensory and sensual being presupposes always ( already ) its counterpart , the ' sensible ' body , that is , a body ...
... sensory and sensual being . - But , as I try to explicate further below ( Chapters 3 and 4 ) , the human body as a sensory and sensual being presupposes always ( already ) its counterpart , the ' sensible ' body , that is , a body ...
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... sensory apertures – or in Lacan's terms ' erotogenic zones ' ( Lacan , 1977 : 314-15 ) - transmitting the inside / outside in both directions gain a central meaning : ' these apertures of ingestion and emission work to constitute the ...
... sensory apertures – or in Lacan's terms ' erotogenic zones ' ( Lacan , 1977 : 314-15 ) - transmitting the inside / outside in both directions gain a central meaning : ' these apertures of ingestion and emission work to constitute the ...
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Pasi Falk. tive . From an ontogenic perspective , the sensory interaction articulating the bodily boundaries and the distinction of inside and outside is right from the start also a mental process which defines the ' me ' in relation to ...
Pasi Falk. tive . From an ontogenic perspective , the sensory interaction articulating the bodily boundaries and the distinction of inside and outside is right from the start also a mental process which defines the ' me ' in relation to ...
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... sensory and sensual body ( Chapter 2 ) moving then to a topological characterization of the role of the interactive body openings which allows us to build a bridge from the body to the self and finally contextualize both of these to ...
... sensory and sensual body ( Chapter 2 ) moving then to a topological characterization of the role of the interactive body openings which allows us to build a bridge from the body to the self and finally contextualize both of these to ...
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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