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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... basic model for cosmological schemes and not just the mere anthropomorphism of the so - called primitive cosmologies but also as a less obvious basic scheme rendering conceptual means to conceive of the Order of the outside world and ...
... basic model for cosmological schemes and not just the mere anthropomorphism of the so - called primitive cosmologies but also as a less obvious basic scheme rendering conceptual means to conceive of the Order of the outside world and ...
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... basic spatial and temporal categorizations - starting from the distinction ' of inside and outside to the distinction of left and right and all the active ( temporal ) functions between them are based on the bodily organization . The ...
... basic spatial and temporal categorizations - starting from the distinction ' of inside and outside to the distinction of left and right and all the active ( temporal ) functions between them are based on the bodily organization . The ...
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... basic psychoanalytical formu- lations ; from Lacan for whom subject - formation takes place at the intersection of the body and the signifier ( Wellbery , 1990 : xv ) to Derrida and Kristeva , both of whom focus on the intersections of ...
... basic psychoanalytical formu- lations ; from Lacan for whom subject - formation takes place at the intersection of the body and the signifier ( Wellbery , 1990 : xv ) to Derrida and Kristeva , both of whom focus on the intersections of ...
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... basic condition : there must be a distinction between the outside and inside , a distinction which appears to be nothing else than a logical truism . Of course the distinction is the condition for something to be allowed or taken in ...
... basic condition : there must be a distinction between the outside and inside , a distinction which appears to be nothing else than a logical truism . Of course the distinction is the condition for something to be allowed or taken in ...
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... basic dimension in which the change manifests itself in its most articulated manner , that is , the dimension of orality . So , in making generalizations where the primitive society or the ' other ' ( non - Western ) culture is extended ...
... basic dimension in which the change manifests itself in its most articulated manner , that is , the dimension of orality . So , in making generalizations where the primitive society or the ' other ' ( non - Western ) culture is extended ...
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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