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Packaged Pleasures
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Author : Gary S. Cross
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2014-09-30
Packaged Pleasures written by Gary S. Cross and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-30 with Business & Economics categories.
From the candy bar to the cigarette, records to roller coasters, a technological revolution during the last quarter of the nineteenth century precipitated a colossal shift in human consumption and sensual experience. Food, drink, and many other consumer goods came to be mass-produced, bottled, canned, condensed, and distilled, unleashing new and intensified surges of pleasure, delight, thrill—and addiction. In Packaged Pleasures, Gary S. Cross and Robert N. Proctor delve into an uncharted chapter of American history, shedding new light on the origins of modern consumer culture and how technologies have transformed human sensory experience. In the space of only a few decades, junk foods, cigarettes, movies, recorded sound, and thrill rides brought about a revolution in what it means to taste, smell, see, hear, and touch. New techniques of boxing, labeling, and tubing gave consumers virtually unlimited access to pleasures they could simply unwrap and enjoy. Manufacturers generated a seemingly endless stream of sugar-filled, high-fat foods that were delicious but detrimental to health. Mechanically rolled cigarettes entered the market and quickly addicted millions. And many other packaged pleasures dulled or displaced natural and social delights. Yet many of these same new technologies also offered convenient and effective medicines, unprecedented opportunities to enjoy music and the visual arts, and more hygienic, varied, and nutritious food and drink. For better or for worse, sensation became mechanized, commercialized, and, to a large extent, democratized by being made cheap and accessible. Cross and Proctor have delivered an ingeniously constructed history of consumerism and consumer technology that will make us all rethink some of our favorite things.
The Age Of Addiction
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Author : David T. Courtwright
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-06
The Age Of Addiction written by David T. Courtwright and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-06 with History categories.
“A fascinating history of corporate America’s efforts to shape our habits and desires.” —Sean Illing, Vox “[A] compulsively readable book about bad habits becoming big business...In crisp and playful prose and with plenty of needed humor, Courtwright has written a fascinating history of what we like and why we like it, from the first taste of beer in the ancient Middle East to opioids in West Virginia.” —American Conservative “A sweeping, ambitious account of the evolution of addiction...This bold, thought-provoking synthesis will appeal to fans of ‘big history’ in the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel.” —Publishers Weekly “A mind-blowing tour de force that unwraps the myriad objects of addiction that surround us daily...This intelligent, incisive, and sometimes grimly entertaining book will become the standard work on the subject.” —Rod Phillips, author of Alcohol: A History We live in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and shopping to binge eating and opioid abuse. Sugar can be as habit-forming as cocaine, researchers tell us, and social media apps are deliberately hooking our kids. But what can we do to resist temptations that insidiously rewire our brains? A renowned expert on addiction, David Courtwright reveals how global enterprises have both created and catered to our addictions. The Age of Addiction chronicles the triumph of what he calls “limbic capitalism,” the growing network of competitive businesses targeting the brain pathways responsible for feeling, motivation, and long-term memory.
Live Die Buy Eat
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Author : Kristian Bjørkdahl
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-11-22
Live Die Buy Eat written by Kristian Bjørkdahl and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-22 with Social Science categories.
Live, Die, Buy, Eat. These words represent a chain of events which today is disconnected. In the past few years, controversies around meat have arisen around industrialization and globalization of meat production, often pivoting around health, environmental issues, and animal welfare. Although meat increasingly figures as a problem, most consumers’ knowledge of animal husbandry and meat production is more absent than ever. Tracing a historical process of alienation along three distinct axes, the authors show how the animal origin of meat is covered up, rationalized, forgotten, excused, neglected, and denied. How is meat produced today, and where? How do we consume meat, and how have our consumption habits changed? Why have these changes occurred, and what are the social and cultural consequences of these changes? Using Norway as a case study, this book examines the dramatic changes in meat production and consumption over the last 150 years. With a wide range of historical sources, together with interviews and observation at farms, slaughterhouses, and production units, as well as analyses of contemporary texts and digital sources, Live, Die, Buy, Eat explores the transformation of animal husbandry, meat production and consumption, together with its cultural consequences. It will appeal to scholars of anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, geography, and history with an interest in food, agriculture, environment, and culture.
Packed With Pleasure
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Author : Lori Wilde
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Packed With Pleasure written by Lori Wilde and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.
Metaphysical Answers To Metaphysical Questions Book 3
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Author : Mustafa Karnas
language : en
Publisher: Noetika Medya Yayıncılık Danışmanlık Bilişim.tur.san.ve Tic.a.ş.
Release Date : 2021-02-13
Metaphysical Answers To Metaphysical Questions Book 3 written by Mustafa Karnas and has been published by Noetika Medya Yayıncılık Danışmanlık Bilişim.tur.san.ve Tic.a.ş. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-13 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
CONTENTS THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (1): What causes the system to start to reverse - that is to say, to self-destruct when an information that is in a systematic and enables the fiction of the system to continue? . THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (2): If an observer is regarded as nonexistent by a field he observes, and if the observed field distances the observer from being an observer by pushing them out of the system. In this case, what error would the observer make towards the field he observed? THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (3): What kind of force is the resulting force when a field of information framed by the perception of impossibility is turned into work? THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (4): When the projection of a system's image in us does not coincide with the image information we have about that system, how is this image perceived in our perception? . THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (5): Why are soap bubbles round? THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (6): According to the law of creation, if the reason for the existence of a thing is to complete another thing while being defined from another , In this case, when we accept love as the spatial state of energy, what energy does love dwell on? THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (7): What is the road, what is the passenger, what is the passenger road? THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (8): What are the possibilities of something, as well? THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (9): What is the energy that occurs when the mind is at rest? THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (10): What is the new space of the mind after bodily death? THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (11): What is the new space of the mind after bodily death? THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (12): What energy does innocence dwell on? THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (13): If thinking is a state of energy; thinking in this case also has a space energy. What is the difference between dreaming and thinking in line with this information? . THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (14): Through this system, it symbolizes the divine law in itself and shows the manifested effect of God , The concept mentioned above , What is it? THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (15): What location is a building in , 2 + 2: 4 , doesn't it? THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (16): The concept called luck is a habi-taste, a field of knowledge, energy and matrix in itself. It shapes itself on a complete metaphysical system , Acting on this knowledge. If the system called chance is a space. What is the basic paradigm that feeds this field? THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (17): Fenafillah, in his case, the saint, died before he died, got rid of himself. If we think on this matter. Getting rid of one's self means getting rid of what's oneself. THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (18): In order to transform one matrix into another, what does the matrix have to be changed? . THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (19): How can you make something worthless? THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (20): What inevitably leads to the total energy element in the common field, which occurs when the energy fields enter into interaction, communication, admixture and observational relationship? . THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION: (21): It cannot reach the energy of realization that is not designed. What is the source energy of starting something to be designed in the mind. That is, why does the mind design a certain thing, but not something else , What is the source that designs that particular thing to the mind, that is, selectivity in perception? THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (22): What is the reason why the field does not open itself to the observer, although he wants to observe a field. That is, what should the observer present to the field he wants to observe? … THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (23): What is the difference between dreaming and thinking? THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (24): What is the place of "I"? THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (25): To bring a business into a state of prudence and abundance - that is, business or. Need to align (encode) the relationship , with what? THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (26): What do you turn into when you frame a matrix field, limit it and put it in the frame of perception. . formun üstü THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (27): A system that mentally enslaves a man (mind) , and enslaves its own paradigms, makes the target people think how to achieve this (slave minds do not think with reason). THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (28): If it were a quantum computer. What would you ask the computer first? THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (29): In order to transform one matrix into another, what does the matrix have to be changed? . THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (30): Where is the place of knowledge? THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (31): Why are soap bubbles round? THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (32): In what state should the information be during the following process? . THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (33): What power do you activate when you give up something? THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (34): Where is heaven? THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (35): Where is the beginning of the event horizon of abstract mechanisms such as thought and imagination? . THE METAPHYSICAL QUESTION (36): What needs to be done in order to open up a new matrix field by allowing the paradoxical dilemma to re-interact with other possibilities?
The Oxford Handbook Of Consumption
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Author : Dr. Frederick F. Wherry
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-09-09
The Oxford Handbook Of Consumption written by Dr. Frederick F. Wherry and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-09 with Business & Economics categories.
The Oxford Handbook of Consumption consolidates the most innovative recent work conducted by social scientists in the field of consumption studies and identifies some of the most fruitful lines of inquiry for future research. It begins by embedding marketing in its global history, enmeshed in various political, economic, and social sites. From this embedded perspective, the book branches out to examine the rise of consumer culture theory among consumer researchers and parallel innovative developments in sociology and anthropology, with scholarship analyzing the roles that identity, social networks, organizational dynamics, institutions, market devices, materiality, and cultural meanings play across a wide variety of applications, including, but not limited to, brands and branding, the sharing economy, tastes and preferences, credit and credit scoring, consumer surveillance, race and ethnicity, status, family life, well-being, environmental sustainability, social movements, and social inequality. The volume is unique in the attention it gives to consumer research on inequality and the focus it has on consumer credit scores and consumer behaviors that shape life chances. The volume includes essays by many of the key researchers in the field, some of whom have only recently, if at all, crossed the disciplinary lines that this volume has enabled. The contributors have tried to address several key questions: What motivates consumption and what does it mean to be a consumer? What social, technical, and cultural systems integrate and give character to contemporary consumption? What actors, institutions, and understandings organize and govern consumption? And what are the social uses and effects of consumption?
Risk On The Table
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Author : Angela N. H. Creager
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2021-01-15
Risk On The Table written by Angela N. H. Creager and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-15 with History categories.
Over the last century, the industrialization of agriculture and processing technologies have made food abundant and relatively inexpensive for much of the world’s population. Simultaneously, pesticides, nitrates, and other technological innovations intended to improve the food supply’s productivity and safety have generated new, often poorly understood risks for consumers and the environment. From the proliferation of synthetic additives to the threat posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the chapters in Risk on the Table zero in on key historical cases in North America and Europe that illuminate the history of food safety, highlighting the powerful tensions that exists among scientific understandings of risk, policymakers’ decisions, and cultural notions of “pure” food.
New Ritual Society
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Author : Gianpiero Vincenzo
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2018-07-27
New Ritual Society written by Gianpiero Vincenzo and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-27 with Business & Economics categories.
Consumerism has established itself as a dominant lifestyle, but the reasons behind this are often unclear. This study revisits a large amount of diverse research, and argues that consumerism is a powerful ritual “machine” that can make up for the modern lack of values with new symbols and rituals. Consumerism made its claim between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, when the traditional symbolic world had ended and a new one had not yet emerged. Slowly but progressively, consumerism begun to develop new symbolic forms and new social rituals, becoming the basis for new mimetic behaviours. As nationalism has progressively declined, consumerism has permeated the entire social fabric. Supermarkets and shopping malls must be interpreted in the light of their ritual significance, as temples and holy cities of a new symbolic order. In the consumeristic era, many people are led to think and imagine in consumer terms, to identify themselves through consumption rituals. The impact of consumerism on culture, from literature to art, should not be underestimated. Many artists have tried to develop their aesthetics by triggering a dialectical, or openly critical, confrontation with consumerism. This book also takes into account the development of violence and the effects of consumerism on childhood and new generations. The book contains a preface by the German anthropologist Christoph Wulf, and the images illustrating the text are by Belgian artist Michel Couturier.
The Routledge Companion To Advertising And Promotional Culture
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Author : Emily West
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-02-11
The Routledge Companion To Advertising And Promotional Culture written by Emily West and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-11 with Business & Economics categories.
The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture provides an essential guide to the key issues, methodologies, concepts, debates, and policies that shape our everyday relationship with advertising. The book contains eight sections: Historical Perspectives considers the historical roots and their relationship to recent changes of contemporary advertising and promotional practice. Political Economy examines how market forces, corporate ownership, and government policies shape the advertising and media promotion environment. Globalization presents work on advertising and marketing as a global, intercultural, and transnational practice. Audiences as Labor, Consumers, Interpreters, Fans introduces how people construct promotional meaning and are constructed as consumers, markets, and labor by advertising forces. Identities analyzes the ways that advertising constructs images and definitions of groups -- such as gender, race and the child -- through industry labor practices, marketing, as well as through representation in advertising texts. Social Institutions looks at the pervasiveness of advertising strategies in different social domains, including politics, music, housing, and education. Everyday Life highlights how a promotional ethos and advertising initiatives pervade self image, values, and relationships. The Environment interrogates advertising’s relationship to environmental issues, the promotional efforts of corporations to construct green images, and mass consumption’s relationship to material waste. With chapters written by leading international scholars working at the intersections of media studies and advertising studies, this book is a go-to source for those looking to understand the ways advertising has shaped consumer culture, in the past and present.
Stories Of The Self
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Author : Anna Poletti
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2020-08-25
Stories Of The Self written by Anna Poletti and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
The importance of personal storytelling in contemporary culture and politics In an age where our experiences are processed and filtered through a wide variety of mediums, both digital and physical, how do we tell our own story? How do we “get a life,” make sense of who we are and the way we live, and communicate that to others? Stories of the Self takes the literary study of autobiography and opens it up to a broad and fascinating range of material practices beyond the book, investigating the manifold ways people are documenting themselves in contemporary culture. Anna Poletti explores Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules, a collection of six hundred cardboard boxes filled with text objects from the artist’s everyday life; the mid-aughts crowdsourced digital archive PostSecret; queer zine culture and its practices of remixing and collaging; and the bureaucratic processes surrounding surveillance dossiers. Stories of the Self argues that while there is a strong emphasis on the importance of personal storytelling in contemporary culture and politics, mediation is just as important in establishing the credibility and legibility of life writing. Poletti argues that the very media used for writing our lives intrinsically shapes how we are seen to matter.