Потребление и дигитални стоки във всекидневието
Consumption and Digital Commodities in the Everyday
Author(s): Mark PosterSubject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Summary/Abstract: The category of the everyday has designated in social theory the remainder, what is left over after the important regions of politics and production. This left consumption in the under-theorized domain of the everyday. Since Veblen and more recently Baudrillard and de Certeau, consumption has been reconfigured as significant in its own right, as a complex, articulated area related directly to culture. Liberal thinkers have also claimed consumer activity as central to society, as the domain where the individual is realized. I shall review these positions and attempt to develop an understanding of consumption in daily life in relation to digital cultural objects. I shall argue that these mediated commodities, in the practices of appropriation connected with them, configure subjects in ways that are difficult to reconcile with existing structures of domination.
Journal: Социологически проблеми
- Issue Year: 36/2004
- Issue No: 3-4
- Page Range: 7-26
- Page Count: 21
- Language: Bulgarian
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