In contemporary shopping sites new modes of subjectivity, inter-personal relationships and models of social totality are being "tried on", "taken off" and "displayed" in much the same way that one might shop for clothes. These are not the modernist spaces of goal-directed individuals and utopian projects. Rather it is a space of carnivalesque inversions of the present order of things. The multiple masks of the postmodern person "who wears many hats" in different groups and surroundings form a veritable "dramatis personae". In such masks of the individual and the social world may be found a new spatialization and new intuitive perceptions of time and space. This representation of contemporary social life grows out of the work of Henri Lefebvre, Michel Maffesoli, Walter Benjamin and Mikhail Bakhtin. It is an attempt to take seriously the idea that we live in a postmodern consumer culture and to follow through the implications and possibilities of this idea. Cases are drawn from Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan and Singapore to illustrate the new intersections between people, mass culture and consumption.
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Few books attempt nowadays approach the "business processes" from behind, above, below or sideways like this book. The touch, being not really psychological but merely philosophical, enables brave distance taking to customary ways of thinking about consumer society as it is now extended towards consumerism. The opening political aspects also lead the reader to less pawed but fresh thinking paths.
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- The Unmanageable Consumer: Contemporary Consumption and its Fragmentations by Yiannis Gabriel on 5 pages
- Consumption and Everyday Life (The New Sociology) by Mark Paterson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Understanding Urban Tourism: Image, Culture and Experience (Tourism, Retailing and Consumption) by Martin Selby on page 124, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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