Consumer Culture and PostmodernismSAGE, 2007 M07 11 - 232 pages The first edition of this contemporary classic can claim to have put ′consumer culture′ on the map, certainly in relation to postmodernism. This expanded new edition includes:
The result is a book that shakes the boundaries of debate, from one of the foremost writers on culture and postmodernism of the present day. |
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Page 7
... avant-garde of the 1830s). The basic features of modernism can be summarized as: an aesthetic self-consciousness and reflexiveness; a rejection of narrative structure in favour of simultaneity and montage; an exploration of the ...
... avant-garde of the 1830s). The basic features of modernism can be summarized as: an aesthetic self-consciousness and reflexiveness; a rejection of narrative structure in favour of simultaneity and montage; an exploration of the ...
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... avant-gardiste dynamic within the arts which, in the form of Dada and surrealism in the 1920s (Bürger, 1984) and in the form of postmodernism in the 1960s, sought to show that any everyday object could be aestheticized (see discussion ...
... avant-gardiste dynamic within the arts which, in the form of Dada and surrealism in the 1920s (Bürger, 1984) and in the form of postmodernism in the 1960s, sought to show that any everyday object could be aestheticized (see discussion ...
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Mike Featherstone. experience expressive intensities that were effectively derived from the postmodernist avant-garde which had sought to break down the boundaries between art and everyday life and hence gave primacy to aestheic ...
Mike Featherstone. experience expressive intensities that were effectively derived from the postmodernist avant-garde which had sought to break down the boundaries between art and everyday life and hence gave primacy to aestheic ...
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... avant-garde extremism, the partial return to tradition and the central role of communicating with the public – and architecture is the public art. In the field of literary criticism the term postmodern had been used a few years earlier ...
... avant-garde extremism, the partial return to tradition and the central role of communicating with the public – and architecture is the public art. In the field of literary criticism the term postmodern had been used a few years earlier ...
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... avant-garde tactics are designed to create a space ahead of the established, which will ultimately lead to a reclassification of the field that redesignates the established as the outmoded. It is tempting to see postmodernism as an avant ...
... avant-garde tactics are designed to create a space ahead of the established, which will ultimately lead to a reclassification of the field that redesignates the established as the outmoded. It is tempting to see postmodernism as an avant ...
Contents
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4 Cultural Change and Social Practice | 50 |
5 The Aestheticization of Everyday Life | 64 |
6 Lifestyle and Consumer Culture | 81 |
7 City Cultures and Postmodern Lifestyles | 93 |
8 Consumer Culture and Global Disorder | 110 |
9 Common Culture or Uncommon Cultures? | 127 |
10 The Globalization of Diversity | 142 |
11 Modernity and the Cultural Question | 147 |
Bibliography | 182 |
Index | 198 |
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Page 83 - Rather than unreflexively adopting a lifestyle, through tradition or habit, the new heroes of consumer culture make lifestyle a life project and display their individuality and sense of style in the particularity of the assemblage of goods, clothes, practices, experiences, appearance and bodily dispositions they design together into a lifestyle.
Page 67 - And so art is everywhere, since artifice is at the very heart of reality . And so art is dead, not only because its critical transcendence is gone, but because reality itself, entirely impregnated by an aesthetic which is inseparable from its own structure, has been confused with its own image.
Page 7 - ... a prodigious expansion of culture throughout the social realm, to the point at which everything in our social life - from economic value and state power to practices and to the very structure of the psyche itself - can be said to have become 'cultural' in some original and as yet untheorized sense.
Page 18 - culture industry' is a targeted rather than an undifferentiated field, and lifestyle practices reflect the divisions of class and culture: . . . knowledge becomes important: knowledge of new goods, their social and cultural value, and how to use them appropriately. This is particularly the case with aspiring groups who adopt a learning mode towards consumption and the cultivation of a lifestyle. It is for groups such as the new middle class, the new working class and the new rich or upper class,...
Page 54 - This is perhaps the most distressing development of all from an academic standpoint, which has traditionally had a vested interest in preserving a realm of high or elite culture against the surrounding environment of philistinism, of schlock and kitsch, of TV series and...
Page 80 - ... we are moving towards a society without fixed status groups in which the adoption of styles of life (manifest in choice of clothes, leisure activities, consumer goods, bodily disposition) which are fixed to specific groups have been surpassed.
Page 63 - ... the effacement of the boundary between art and everyday life; the collapse of the hierarchical distinction between high and mass/popular culture; a stylistic promiscuity favouring eclecticism and the mixing of codes; parody, pastiche, irony, playfulness and the celebration of the surface "depthlessness...
Page 58 - ... the play of the real' and capacity to open up to surface sensations, spectacular imagery, liminoid experiences and intensities without the nostalgia for the real.
Page 67 - Today it is quotidian reality in its entirety - political, social, historical and economic - that from now on incorporates the simulatory dimension of hyperrealism. We live everywhere already in an "esthetic