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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... discourse , from Freud's classic formulation onwards , according to which ' the ego is first and foremost a bodily ego ' being ' not merely a surface entity , but [ being ] itself the projection of a surface ' ( Freud , 1984 : 364 ...
... discourse , from Freud's classic formulation onwards , according to which ' the ego is first and foremost a bodily ego ' being ' not merely a surface entity , but [ being ] itself the projection of a surface ' ( Freud , 1984 : 364 ...
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... discourse , even if in a critical manner ( Deleuze and Guattari , 1983 [ 1972 ] ; Foucault , 1981 [ 1976 ] ) . The concept of the subject is not simply eliminated but replaced by the concept of the body – a transformation which , in ...
... discourse , even if in a critical manner ( Deleuze and Guattari , 1983 [ 1972 ] ; Foucault , 1981 [ 1976 ] ) . The concept of the subject is not simply eliminated but replaced by the concept of the body – a transformation which , in ...
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... discourse , but it could also be regarded simply as an elaboration of his ' original ' programme which thematizes the genealogy of the modern subject with an emphasis on its possible subversive or oppositional potentials . These ...
... discourse , but it could also be regarded simply as an elaboration of his ' original ' programme which thematizes the genealogy of the modern subject with an emphasis on its possible subversive or oppositional potentials . These ...
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... discourses . The link between sensory organization and the Order is also the basis on which the senses are hierarchized into ' higher ' and ' lower ' ones . In the Western tradition , from Plato to Kant and after , the higher position ...
... discourses . The link between sensory organization and the Order is also the basis on which the senses are hierarchized into ' higher ' and ' lower ' ones . In the Western tradition , from Plato to Kant and after , the higher position ...
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... discourses on economic history suggest , this is the very locus of the origins of economic exchange , the ' external markets ' preceding the ' internal ' ones ( Polanyi , 1957 ) , or in a more relativized formulation , this is where the ...
... discourses on economic history suggest , this is the very locus of the origins of economic exchange , the ' external markets ' preceding the ' internal ' ones ( Polanyi , 1957 ) , or in a more relativized formulation , this is where 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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