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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Page 10
... taste ) and the distant ones ( sight , hearing ) ' -- is by no means a biological constant . Sensory organization is , in a fundamental way , dependent on the cultural and social Order . The changes in the sensory organization are ...
... taste ) and the distant ones ( sight , hearing ) ' -- is by no means a biological constant . Sensory organization is , in a fundamental way , dependent on the cultural and social Order . The changes in the sensory organization are ...
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... ( taste / smell ) . Then again , if the eye simultaneously gains ' mouth - like ' functions , turns into a ' voracious ' organ engaged in ' iconophagy ' ( Mattenklott , 1982 : 78-102 ) or functions as a channel for ' ocular introjection ...
... ( taste / smell ) . Then again , if the eye simultaneously gains ' mouth - like ' functions , turns into a ' voracious ' organ engaged in ' iconophagy ' ( Mattenklott , 1982 : 78-102 ) or functions as a channel for ' ocular introjection ...
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... taste . The sense of taste is surely there , but the ' judgement ' is located primarily at the boundaries of the culture , in the ' mouth ' of the community , as it were . Only when these boundaries grow weaker , is the judgement of taste ...
... taste . The sense of taste is surely there , but the ' judgement ' is located primarily at the boundaries of the culture , in the ' mouth ' of the community , as it were . Only when these boundaries grow weaker , is the judgement of taste ...
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... taste - takes place between these two gates , in the intermediate site between inside and outside ( b ) . This is what gives the mouth and its sensory function , taste ( linked to other sensory registers , especially the sense of smell ) ...
... taste - takes place between these two gates , in the intermediate site between inside and outside ( b ) . This is what gives the mouth and its sensory function , taste ( linked to other sensory registers , especially the sense of smell ) ...
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... taste ' above . - A tribal society is not lacking hierarchical structures , which are moulded according to the kinship system and whatever sub - categories it involves . Then again , the hierarchy itself is to be conceived of as a ...
... taste ' above . - A tribal society is not lacking hierarchical structures , which are moulded according to the kinship system and whatever sub - categories it involves . Then again , the hierarchy itself is to be conceived of as a ...
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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