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The consumer society : myths and structures / created by Jean Baudrillard.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Tcs series | Tcs seriesPublisher: Sage, 2016Edition: Revised editionDescription: ix, 224 pages : 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781473982376 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9781473982383 (paper back : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HB801 BAU
Contents:
Introduction to the revised edition / Barry Smart Introduction to the first edition / George Ritzer pt. I. The formal liturgy of the object 1. Profusion 2. The miraculous status of consumption 3. The vicious circle of growth pt. II. The theory of consumption 4. The social logic of consumption 5. Towards a theory of consumption 6. Personalization, or, The smallest marginal difference pt. III. Mass Media, sex and leisure 7. Mass-media culture 8. The finest consumer object : the body 9. The drama of leisure, or, The impossibility of wasting one's time 10. The mystique of solicitude 11. Anomie in the affluent society Conclusion : on contemporary alienation, or, the end of the pact with the devil
Summary: This title was one of the first to focus on the processes and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture, and many of Baudrillard's themes, in particular his concepts of simulation and the simulacrum, are featured
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Book Book Harare Campus Library Open Shelf HB801 BAU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 161616 Available BK149205

Includes index

Introduction to the revised edition / Barry Smart Introduction to the first edition / George Ritzer pt. I. The formal liturgy of the object 1. Profusion 2. The miraculous status of consumption 3. The vicious circle of growth pt. II. The theory of consumption 4. The social logic of consumption 5. Towards a theory of consumption 6. Personalization, or, The smallest marginal difference pt. III. Mass Media, sex and leisure 7. Mass-media culture 8. The finest consumer object : the body 9. The drama of leisure, or, The impossibility of wasting one's time 10. The mystique of solicitude 11. Anomie in the affluent society Conclusion : on contemporary alienation, or, the end of the pact with the devil

This title was one of the first to focus on the processes and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture, and many of Baudrillard's themes, in particular his concepts of simulation and the simulacrum, are featured

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