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:
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... tendencies inthe nascent consumer culture, turning people away fromthe'puritan ethic'. Postmodernism came later, in the 1960s and was regardedasa more dangerous intensification of these transgressive tendencies.Inboth cases ...
... tendencies inthe nascent consumer culture, turning people away fromthe'puritan ethic'. Postmodernism came later, in the 1960s and was regardedasa more dangerous intensification of these transgressive tendencies.Inboth cases ...
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... tendencies are producing a more complexglobal consumer culture. New levels of luxury are evident at thetopendof the social structure with a good dealof celebration of the lifestyles and consumption patterns ofthe rich.But for thosebelow ...
... tendencies are producing a more complexglobal consumer culture. New levels of luxury are evident at thetopendof the social structure with a good dealof celebration of the lifestyles and consumption patterns ofthe rich.But for thosebelow ...
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... tendencies whichhave been addressed within Theory,Culture& Society, include complexity theory (Urry, 2005), Derridiandeconstruction (Turner, 2005;Venn, 2005); posthumanism (Gane, 2006; Braidotti, 2006); the newvitalism, inspired by ...
... tendencies whichhave been addressed within Theory,Culture& Society, include complexity theory (Urry, 2005), Derridiandeconstruction (Turner, 2005;Venn, 2005); posthumanism (Gane, 2006; Braidotti, 2006); the newvitalism, inspired by ...
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... tendencies of modernism with desire, the instinctual,andpleasure unleashed to carry the logic ofmodernismto its furthest reaches exacerbating the structural tensionsofsociety and disjunction of therealms (Bell,1980).Jameson (1984a) ...
... tendencies of modernism with desire, the instinctual,andpleasure unleashed to carry the logic ofmodernismto its furthest reaches exacerbating the structural tensionsofsociety and disjunction of therealms (Bell,1980).Jameson (1984a) ...
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... tendencies towards cultural disorder and de classification (which some label as postmodernism) is therefore bringing cultural questions to the foreand has wider implications for our conceptualizationofthe relationship between culture ...
... tendencies towards cultural disorder and de classification (which some label as postmodernism) is therefore bringing cultural questions to the foreand has wider implications for our conceptualizationofthe relationship between culture ...
Contents
Towardsa Sociology ofPostmodern Culture 4 Cultural Change and Social Practice | |
The Aestheticization of Everyday Life | |
Lifestyle and Consumer Culture 7 City Culturesand Postmodern Lifestyles 8 Consumer Culture and Global Disorder 9 Common Culture or Uncommo... | |
The Globalization of Diversity | |
Index | |
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