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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... referring not only to foodways in a narrow sense but also including other oral - ingestive conduct . Modern orality ( I ) – the fates of the meal The tendencies of modern eating - culture may be summarized as follows . First , the ...
... referring not only to foodways in a narrow sense but also including other oral - ingestive conduct . Modern orality ( I ) – the fates of the meal The tendencies of modern eating - culture may be summarized as follows . First , the ...
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... referring to all sensory modes of reception , primarily , however , those which receive the ' stimulus ' as representations . Even the concrete act of oral incorporation , eating itself , does not escape the realm of representations ...
... referring to all sensory modes of reception , primarily , however , those which receive the ' stimulus ' as representations . Even the concrete act of oral incorporation , eating itself , does not escape the realm of representations ...
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... referring to the fundamental cultural differences and historical changes in the functions of language from ' primitive ' word magic , in which spoken words are conceived of as indexically bound to referential entities or states of being ...
... referring to the fundamental cultural differences and historical changes in the functions of language from ' primitive ' word magic , in which spoken words are conceived of as indexically bound to referential entities or states of being ...
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... as a communicative reciprocal conduct , and ends up by referring to ' conversation ' as a specific though paradigmatic - realization of pure sociability , 29 - Food to words Now let us now turn to the BODY , SELF AND CULTURE 3333.
... as a communicative reciprocal conduct , and ends up by referring to ' conversation ' as a specific though paradigmatic - realization of pure sociability , 29 - Food to words Now let us now turn to the BODY , SELF AND CULTURE 3333.
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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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