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 xi
... structures and suggest that our general conception of culture is in need of major revision. have emerged in the 1980s. Indeed it is difficult to separate the question of the postmodern from the noticeable rise of interest in theorizing ...
... structures and suggest that our general conception of culture is in need of major revision. have emerged in the 1980s. Indeed it is difficult to separate the question of the postmodern from the noticeable rise of interest in theorizing ...
Page xii
... Structure and Culture in Bremen in June 1987. It has appeared in H. Haferkamp (ed.), Social Structure and Culture, Berlin: de Gruyter, 1989 and in H. Haferkamp (ed.), Sozial Struktur und Kultur, Berlin: de Gruyter, 1990. 4 'Cultural ...
... Structure and Culture in Bremen in June 1987. It has appeared in H. Haferkamp (ed.), Social Structure and Culture, Berlin: de Gruyter, 1989 and in H. Haferkamp (ed.), Sozial Struktur und Kultur, Berlin: de Gruyter, 1990. 4 'Cultural ...
Page xxi
... structure and a shrinking of the middle layers, as well as shifts within the working class from manufacturing jobs to services. Specifically, he notes that symbol analysts (university-educated knowledge professionals such as lawyers ...
... structure and a shrinking of the middle layers, as well as shifts within the working class from manufacturing jobs to services. Specifically, he notes that symbol analysts (university-educated knowledge professionals such as lawyers ...
Page xxiv
... structures to the recognition of greater diversity; the caution against the building of northwest European 'vanguard' societies into basic concepts in favour of more historical exploration; the doubt that there can be a unifying project ...
... structures to the recognition of greater diversity; the caution against the building of northwest European 'vanguard' societies into basic concepts in favour of more historical exploration; the doubt that there can be a unifying project ...
Page xxv
... structure of the global knowledge economy. If, as Naoki Sakai (2001) argues, theoretical knowledge can be seen as flowing out from Western centres with data flowing back from the rest of the world, this process is becoming more complex ...
... structure of the global knowledge economy. If, as Naoki Sakai (2001) argues, theoretical knowledge can be seen as flowing out from Western centres with data flowing back from the rest of the world, this process is becoming more complex ...
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