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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... role of non - rational and affective issues in consumer choice , the political regulation of knowledge , and the constraints on the sovereignty of the consumer . Sociology functioned as a critique of the underlying moral and political ...
... role of non - rational and affective issues in consumer choice , the political regulation of knowledge , and the constraints on the sovereignty of the consumer . Sociology functioned as a critique of the underlying moral and political ...
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... role . The body is both the Same and the Other ; a subject and an object , of practices and knowledge ; it is both a tool and raw material to be worked upon . Or , regarded from an experiential viewpoint , the body appears to oscillate ...
... role . The body is both the Same and the Other ; a subject and an object , of practices and knowledge ; it is both a tool and raw material to be worked upon . Or , regarded from an experiential viewpoint , the body appears to oscillate ...
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... role of the human body ' ( and a distancing from the biological body conception ) in the web of social and cultural liaisons ; ' it concerns more specifically the effects of these liaisons on the experiential aspect of the body - the ...
... role of the human body ' ( and a distancing from the biological body conception ) in the web of social and cultural liaisons ; ' it concerns more specifically the effects of these liaisons on the experiential aspect of the body - the ...
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... role of the body as ' contained and container at once ' ( Stewart , 1984 : 104 ) is actualized . The boundaries or limits of the body are thematized both from outside - in and inside - out : ' known from an exterior , the limits of the ...
... role of the body as ' contained and container at once ' ( Stewart , 1984 : 104 ) is actualized . The boundaries or limits of the body are thematized both from outside - in and inside - out : ' known from an exterior , the limits of the ...
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... role in 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 ...
... role in 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 ...
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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