Respected conservative journalist and commentator Timothy P. Carney continues the conversation begun with Hillbilly Elegy and the classic Bowling Alone in this hard-hitting analysis that identifies the true factor behind the decline of the American dream: it is not purely the re…
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Why do people record TV programmes instead of watching them? Why are former alcoholics pleased to let other people drink in their place? Why can ritual machines pray in place of believers? Robert Pfaller advances the theory of 'interpassivity' as delegated consumption and enjoym…
A radical criticism of current assumptions in the field of cultural theory today, Robert Pfaller advances a general theory of interpassivity as the wish for delegated consumption and enjoyment in both art and everyday-life. It is therefore a concept that allows him to tackle a v…
"Why do people record TV programmes instead of watching them? Why are former alcoholics pleased to let other people drink in their place? Why can ritual machines pray in place of believers? Robert Pfaller advances the theory of 'interpassivity' as delegated consumption and enjoy…
"Cutting, burning, branding, and bone-breaking are all types of self-injury, or the deliberate, non-suicidal destruction of one's own body tissue, a practice that emerged from obscurity in the 1990s and spread dramatically as a typical behavior among adolescents. Long considered…
"Cutting, burning, branding, and bone-breaking are all types of self-injury, or the deliberate, non-suicidal destruction of one's own body tissue, a practice that emerged from obscurity in the 1990s and spread dramatically as a typical behavior among adolescents. Long considered…
Cutting, burning, branding, and bone-breaking are all types of self-injury, or the deliberate, non-suicidal destruction of one's own body tissue, a practice that emerged from obscurity in the 1990s and spread dramatically as a typical behavior among adolescents. Long considered …
"This reference work offers a comprehensive compilation of current psychological research related to the construct of solitude. Explores numerous psychological perspectives on solitude, including those from developmental, neuropsychological, social, personality, and clinical psy…
"This reference work offers a comprehensive compilation of current psychological research related to the construct of solitude. Explores numerous psychological perspectives on solitude, including those from developmental, neuropsychological, social, personality, and clinical psy…
