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 xii
... transformed from a discipline of the soul into a mechanism for the expression of sexuality which is in turn the focus of modern self - hood . Whereas traditional forms of diet subordinated desire in the interests of the salvation of the ...
... transformed from a discipline of the soul into a mechanism for the expression of sexuality which is in turn the focus of modern self - hood . Whereas traditional forms of diet subordinated desire in the interests of the salvation of the ...
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... transformed into a theory of the body / self / society such that the communal bonds of the ritual meal are eventually replaced by the privatized forms of consumption in modern society , but this historical transformation is also one ...
... transformed into a theory of the body / self / society such that the communal bonds of the ritual meal are eventually replaced by the privatized forms of consumption in modern society , but this historical transformation is also one ...
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... transforming the relatively ' open ' pre - modern body , allowing a wider range of bodily and affective ex - pressions ... transformed into representations of ' good objects ' in the history of modern advertising . It appears that the ...
... transforming the relatively ' open ' pre - modern body , allowing a wider range of bodily and affective ex - pressions ... transformed into representations of ' good objects ' in the history of modern advertising . It appears that the ...
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... transformed into a mental representation in the manner visual perception turns into mental ' images ' ( of memory and imagination ) , 3 but nevertheless , both are still moulded by the cultural representations . The latter outline the ...
... transformed into a mental representation in the manner visual perception turns into mental ' images ' ( of memory and imagination ) , 3 but nevertheless , both are still moulded by the cultural representations . The latter outline the ...
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... transforming the relationship between ' persons ' ( primarily as groups ) into an in - dividualized relationship between the subject and the ( material ) object ( Goux , 1990 : 122-33 ) . The other bidirectional dimension of the mouth ...
... transforming the relationship between ' persons ' ( primarily as groups ) into an in - dividualized relationship between the subject and the ( material ) object ( Goux , 1990 : 122-33 ) . The other bidirectional dimension of the mouth ...
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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