Consumer culture and postmodernism by Featherstone, Mike, ProQuest Ebook Subscriptions, ProQuest (Firm)

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Consumer culture and postmodernism / by Featherstone, Mike, Sage Knowledge

Table of Contents: “…Modern and Postmodern : Definitions and Interpretations ; Theories Of Consumer Culture; Towards a Sociology Of Postmodern Culture ; Cultural Change and Social Practice ; The Aestheticization of Everyday Life ; Lifestyle and Consumer Culture ; City Cultures and Postmodern Lifestyles ; Consumer Culture and Global Disorder ; Common Culture or Uncommon Cultures? …”
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Consumer culture and postmodernism / by Featherstone, Mike

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Consumer culture and postmodernism / by Featherstone, Mike

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Undoing culture : globalization, postmodernism and identity / by Featherstone, Mike

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Undoing culture : globalization, postmoderism and identity / by Featherstone, Mike, Sage Knowledge

Table of Contents: “…The Heroic Life and Everyday Life -- 5. Globalizing the Postmodern -- 6. Global and Local Cultures -- 7. Localism, Globalism and Cultural Identity -- 8. …”
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Undoing culture globalization, postmoderism and identity / by Featherstone, Mike, ProQuest Ebook Subscriptions, ProQuest (Firm)

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Spaces of culture : city, nation, world / by Sage Knowledge

Table of Contents: “…Luke -- Digital networks and power / Saskia Sassen -- The postmodern urban condition / Michael Dear and Steven Flusty -- Roaming the city : proper women in improper spaces / Hilary Radner -- Not all that is solid melts into air : modernity and contingency / Heidrun Friese and Peter Wagner -- Moving culture / Ron Eyerman -- Radiated identities : in pursuit of the temporal complexity of conceptual cultural practices / Barbara Adam -- Triumphalist geographies / Michael Shapiro -- The anti-reflexivist revolution : on the affirmationism of the new right / Gr̲an Dahl -- Transculturality : the puzzling form of cultures today / Wolfgang Welsch -- Towards a multicultural conception of human rights / Boaventura de Sousa Santos -- The hybridization of roots and the abhorrence of the bush / Jonathan Friedman -- Narrating the postcolonial / Couze Venn.…”
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The Body : social process and cultural theory / by Sage Knowledge

Table of Contents: “…Levine -- Bio-politics and social policy : Foucault's account of welfare / Martin Hewitt -- Genealogy and the body : Foucault/Deleuze/Nietzsche / Scott Lash -- The art of the body in the discourse of postmodernity / Roy Boyne -- Love's labour lost? A sociological view / Margareta Bertilsson -- Biographical boundaries : sociology and Marilyn Monroe / Graham McCann -- Carmen -- or the invention of a new feminine myth / Dick Pels and Aya Crébas -- The mask of ageing and the postmodern life course / Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth.…”
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Body modification / by Sage Knowledge

Table of Contents: “…Body modification : an introduction / Mike Featherstone -- 'Modern primitivism' : non-mainstream body modification and racialized representation / Christian Klesse -- The possibility of primitiveness : towards a sociology of body marks in cool societies / Bryan S Turner -- Anchoring the (postmodern) self? : body modification, fashion and identity / Paul Sweetman -- This body which is not one : dealing with differences / Margrit Shildrick -- Marinetti, Chopin, Stelarc and the auratic intensities of the postmodern techno-body / Nicholas Zurbrugg -- Parasite visions : alternate, intimate and involuntary experiences / Stelarc -- In dialogue with 'posthuman' bodies : an interview with Stelarc / Ross Farnell -- An order of pure decision : un-natural selection in the work of Stelarc and Orlan / Jane Goodall -- Serene and happy and distant : an interview with Orlan / Robert Ayers -- The sacrificial body of Orlan / Julie Clarke -- Citation and subjectivity : towards a return of the embodied will / Roy Boyne -- Interaction order and beyond : a field analysis of body culture within fitness gyms / Roberta Sassatelli -- The body as outlaw : Lyotard, Kafka and the Visible Human Project / Neal Curtis -- Creating 'the perfect body' : a variable project / Lee Monaghan -- Body modification, self-mutilation and agency in media accounts of a subculture / Victoria Pitts -- Tattoos and heroin : a literary approach / Kevin McCarron -- Performing the technoscientific body : real video surgery and the anatomy theater / Eugene Thacker.…”
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Love and eroticism / by Sage Knowledge

Table of Contents: “…Machine derived contents note: Love and Eroticism -- Mike Featherstone -- An Introduction -- On the Postmodern Uses of Sex -- Zygmunt Bauman -- The Sexual Citizen -- Jeffrey Weeks -- On the Way to the Post-Familial Family -- From a Community of Need to Elective Affinities -- Elizabeth Beck-Gernsheim -- On the Elementary Forms of Socioerotic Life -- Sasha Weitman -- Bohemian Love -- Elizabeth Wilson -- Otto Gross and Else Jaff[ac]e and Max Weber -- Sam Whimster with Gottfried Heuer -- The Lost Innocence of Love -- Eva Illouz -- Romance as a Postmodern Condition -- Balancing Sex and Love since the 1960's Sexual Revolution -- Cas Wouters -- Citysex -- Henning Bech -- Representing Lust in Public -- Love and Structure -- Charles Lindholm -- `Falling in Love with Love is Falling for Make Believe' -- Mary Evans -- Ideologies of Romance in Post-Enlightenment Culture -- Introduction to Georg Simmel's 'On the Sociology of the Family' -- David Frisby -- On the Sociology of the Family -- Georg Simmel -- Sex and Sociality -- Laura Rival, Don Slater and Daniel Miller -- Comparative Ethnographies of Sexual Objectification -- The Nazi Eye Code of Falling in Love -- Andrew Travers -- Bright Eyes, Black Heart, Crazed Gaze -- `On Me, Not In Me' -- Cindy Patton -- Locating Affect in Nationalism after AIDS -- Seductions of the Impossible -- Michael Richardson -- Love, the Erotic and Sacrifice in Surrealist Discourse -- The Lesson of Fire -- Maria Esther Maciel -- Notes on Love and Eroticism in Octavio Paz's /f003The Double Flame -- Love, Gender and Morality -- Mike Hepworth -- Stephen Kern's `Eyes of Love' -- Bodies, Sex and Death -- Arthur W Frank.…”
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Cyberspace/cyberbodies/cyberpunk : cultures of technological embodiment / by Sage Knowledge

Table of Contents: “…Cultures of technological embodiment : an introduction / Mike Featherstone, Roger Burrows -- Feedback and cybernetics : reimaging the body in the age of cybernetics / David Tomas -- The futuure looms : weaving women and cybernetics / Sadie Plant -- The design of virtual reality / Michael Heim -- Postmodern virtualities / Mark Poster -- The embodied computer/user / Deborah Lupton -- Rear-view mirrorshades : the recursive generation of the cyberbody / Nigel Clark -- Cyberspace and the world we live in / Kevin Robbins.…”
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