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Consumer Culture and Postmodernism (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) by Mike Featherstone is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Implicit within claims that society itself is in some sense postmodern is an argument about the priority of consumption as a determinant of everyday life. In this view, mass media advertising and market dynamics lead to a constant search for new fashions, new styles, new sensations and experiences. Material goods are consumed as `communicators'; they are valued as signifiers of taste and of lifestyle. This volume examines the viability of this portrait of contemporary society. Mike Featherstone explores the roots of consumer culture, how it is defined and differentiated and the extent to which it represents the arrival of a `postmodern' world. He examines the theories of consumption and postmodernism among contemporary social theorists such as Bourdieu, Baudrillard, Lyotard and Jameson and relates these to the actual nature of contemporary consumer culture

Who reads Consumer Culture and Postmodernism (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)?

Author

Mike Featherstone

Publisher

Sage Publications; SAGE Publications, Limited

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780803984158

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Anthropology, Science

Updated

2026-03-24