In the chapter “Mobilizing the Consumer: Assembling the Subject of Consumption”, from their recent book Governing the Present: Administering Economic, Social and Personal Life, Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose give a fine summary of the state of consumer/consumption theory.
It begins, appropriately, with a sketch of the profound ambivalence that has marked consumer studies since the [...]
Though their reading seems a little forced, Fred Newman and Lois Holzman of the East Side Institute are finding Marx (specifically, The German Ideology) useful for developing a “revolutionary” performance social therapeutics:
“Our own work can be described as an effort to make therapeutics a way of life. We also describe our work as building community [...]
According to the recent Times Higher Education Supplement article on the “The Great Divide” between social anthropologists and evolutionary anthropologists,
“This division dates back to the 1970s, when eminent American anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon (now retired emeritus professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara) presented his work on the Yanomami tribes of Venezuela in the context [...]
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