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The story of the author's nine-month-long journey to build a toaster from scratch--from his local appliance store to remote mines in the UK to his mother's backyard, where he creates a crude foundry--aims to help the reader reflect on the costs and perils of our cheap consumer c…
The story of the author's nine-month-long journey to build a toaster from scratch--from his local appliance store to remote mines in the UK to his mother's backyard, where he creates a crude foundry--aims to help the reader reflect on the costs and perils of our cheap consumer c…
The trade in books has always been and remains an ambiguous commercial activity, associated as it is with literature and the exchange of ideas. This collection is concerned with the cultural and economic roles of independent bookstores, and it considers how eight shops founded d…
The culture of eros : repetition as desire creation -- Do it ('til you're satisfied) : repetitive musics and recombinant desires -- "A colorful installment in the twentieth-century drama of consumer subjectivity" : minimalism and the phenomenology of consumer desire -- The media…
Consumption has dominated research and debate in sociology and cultural studies in the last ten years. Until now, books on consumption have tended to focus on abstract theoretical aspects in a way which students have found hard to relate to their everyday lives. In order to redr…
This text provides an introduction to the historical and theoretical foundations of consumption, and an examination of the experience of consumption in the areas of technology, place fashion, music and sport.
This text provides an introduction to the historical and theoretical foundations of consumption, and an examination of the experience of consumption in the areas of technology, place, fashion, music and sport.
Der Band bietet eine differenzierte Sicht auf den Konsumenten. Neben den Grundlagen aus der Psychologie wird auch auf den spezifischen Kontext eingegangen, in dem sich Konsumenten bewegen: so wirken zunehmend kulturelle Einflüsse auf den Kaufprozess ein. Es geht um den kompetent…
In this work, Patrick Hyder Patterson shows that Yugoslavia displayed styles and levels of consumerism associated with Western capitalism, but generated within an identifiably socialist system.
In this work, Patrick Hyder Patterson shows that Yugoslavia displayed styles and levels of consumerism associated with Western capitalism, but generated within an identifiably socialist system.