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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... relation to these , the human body should be kept within focus instead of replacing it by an abstracted model of human being as agent or actor . The latter stance , turning the body into a blind - spot , is characteristic of the ...
... relation to these , the human body should be kept within focus instead of replacing it by an abstracted model of human being as agent or actor . The latter stance , turning the body into a blind - spot , is characteristic of the ...
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... relationship between body and self is essential in the psychoanalytical 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 ...
... relationship between body and self is essential in the psychoanalytical 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 ...
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... relation to the ' not- me ' in terms of mental representations . From a cultural and social perspective the bodily boundaries and the flows through its orifices are defined from the ' outside ' , by a symbolic and practical Order which ...
... relation to the ' not- me ' in terms of mental representations . From a cultural and social perspective the bodily boundaries and the flows through its orifices are defined from the ' outside ' , by a symbolic and practical Order which ...
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... relation to his own body - as the subject of desire . Thus the ' technologies of the self ' refer merely to a certain aspect of self - formation without explicating its contextual meaning , that is , its relationship to the other ...
... relation to his own body - as the subject of desire . Thus the ' technologies of the self ' refer merely to a certain aspect of self - formation without explicating its contextual meaning , that is , its relationship to the other ...
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... relationship between ' sensations and representations ' in the primal scene of consumption , that is , eating , with a ... relation to corresponding bodily ( sensory ) reactions . Chapter 5 ( ' Consuming Desire ' ) traces the discursive ...
... relationship between ' sensations and representations ' in the primal scene of consumption , that is , eating , with a ... relation to corresponding bodily ( sensory ) reactions . Chapter 5 ( ' Consuming Desire ' ) traces the discursive ...
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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