The Consuming BodySAGE Publications, 1994 M11 11 - 256 páginas This book provides 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. The author 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 i |
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... practices of modern Western civilization . It is the most obvious and familiar visible ' thing ' perceived and yet a blind- spot which tends to disappear in the very act of perception or , more generally , in the relatedness to the ...
... practices of modern Western civilization . It is the most obvious and familiar visible ' thing ' perceived and yet a blind- spot which tends to disappear in the very act of perception or , more generally , in the relatedness to the ...
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... practice and as practice – in the organic unity of the discursive and the non - discursive . The counter - discourse is ... practices ( cf. defecation / urination in the realm of ' perverse ' eroticism or the pleasure of sneezing in the ...
... practice and as practice – in the organic unity of the discursive and the non - discursive . The counter - discourse is ... practices ( cf. defecation / urination in the realm of ' perverse ' eroticism or the pleasure of sneezing in the ...
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... practices of preparing , sharing and incorporating food can be distinguished from their ritual and mythical meaning . So , we are back to the heterogeneity of life - processes - now in terms of culturally meaningful practices . If we ...
... practices of preparing , sharing and incorporating food can be distinguished from their ritual and mythical meaning . So , we are back to the heterogeneity of life - processes - now in terms of culturally meaningful practices . If we ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Body Self and Culture | 10 |
Corporeality and History | 45 |
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