Consumption, Public Disorder and the Politics of Knowing

It is often said that we are what we consume. We are a consuming public, and a ravenously consuming one at that. We are, in other words, constituted by an ethic of consumption that is the hallmark of the world we live in (see Bauman, 2007; Hannigan, 1998; Zukin, 2004). This consuming ethic however,...

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Main Author: Prashan Ranasinghe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: professionaldreamers 2011-03-01
Series:lo Squaderno
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Online Access:http://www.losquaderno.professionaldreamers.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/losquaderno19.pdf#page=19