The Consuming BodySAGE, 1994 M07 21 - 256 páginas This 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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... relationship between romanticism and consumerism , Pasi Falk argues that the sense of the self in contempor- ary society is profoundly connected with the idea of unlimited personal consumption ( of food , signs and goods ) . I consume ...
... relationship between romanticism and consumerism , Pasi Falk argues that the sense of the self in contempor- ary society is profoundly connected with the idea of unlimited personal consumption ( of food , signs and goods ) . I consume ...
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... relationship between words and food , because words and food are crucial means of reciprocity and exchange . The argument about self formation is now connected , through a discussion of eating , with the formation of society itself as ...
... relationship between words and food , because words and food are crucial means of reciprocity and exchange . The argument about self formation is now connected , through a discussion of eating , with the formation of society itself as ...
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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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... relationship to power relations - a task which unfortunately was never completed . Yet Foucault's focus is on the constitution of the moral subject , narrowing the concept of the self to those ' techniques ' in which the subject ...
... relationship to power relations - a task which unfortunately was never completed . Yet Foucault's focus is on the constitution of the moral subject , narrowing the concept of the self to those ' techniques ' in which the subject ...
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... relationship between ' sensations and representations ' in the primal scene of consumption , that is , eating , with a specific focus on ' the anthropology of taste ' . The article scrutinizes the role of ambivalences at work in the ...
... relationship between ' sensations and representations ' in the primal scene of consumption , that is , eating , with a specific focus on ' the anthropology of taste ' . The article scrutinizes the role of ambivalences at work in the ...
Contenido
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10 | |
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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