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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... expression in consumption . In this Preface I propose to identify a number of core features which are necessary to constitute , from a theoretical stand point , a coherent outline of the body following the lead of Falk in his historical ...
... expression in consumption . In this Preface I propose to identify a number of core features which are necessary to constitute , from a theoretical stand point , a coherent outline of the body following the lead of Falk in his historical ...
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... 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 soul , in contemporary consumer society the diet assumes an ...
... 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 soul , in contemporary consumer society the diet assumes an ...
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... expression ' me and my body ' does not only manifest an historical specific body - sovereignity but also a distinction in which the body is defined as something outside - ' my self ' as an out - look 2 THE CONSUMING BODY.
... expression ' me and my body ' does not only manifest an historical specific body - sovereignity but also a distinction in which the body is defined as something outside - ' my self ' as an out - look 2 THE CONSUMING BODY.
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... expression be ? Social interac- tion , social exchange or pure ' sociability ' à la Georg Simmel ? Perhaps . Anyway , they certainly presuppose a rather individually controlled body and self standing in an outside relationship to the ...
... expression be ? Social interac- tion , social exchange or pure ' sociability ' à la Georg Simmel ? Perhaps . Anyway , they certainly presuppose a rather individually controlled body and self standing in an outside relationship to the ...
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... expression and communication . So , maybe this is the locus of the ' informalizing process ' Wouters refers to : ' eating - community ' replaced by ' speech - sociability ' . Consequently , eating – now lacking the ' original ...
... expression and communication . So , maybe this is the locus of the ' informalizing process ' Wouters refers to : ' eating - community ' replaced by ' speech - sociability ' . Consequently , eating – now lacking the ' original ...
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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