Celebricities : : Media Culture and the Phenomenology of Gadget Commodity Life / / Anthony Curtis Adler.

What becomes of life, experience, and truth in the hyperconsumeristic culture of the twenty-first century? What happens to the phenomenological call to go "back to the things themselves" when these things, to an ever greater degree, involve a televised life that is not ours to live, celebr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • EXORDIUM
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I
  • 1. THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF TELEVISION
  • 2. THE LIFE NOT OURS TO LIVE
  • 3. THE CELEBRITY AND THE NOBODY
  • 4. BEING(S)
  • 5. THE LIFE OF THINGS
  • 6. IDEOLOGY AND TRUTH
  • 7. THE TRUTH OF THE COMMODITY
  • 8. VALUE, PUBLICITY, POLITICS
  • 9. REPRODUCTION
  • 10. THE GADGET
  • 11. TO THE THINGS THEMSELVES
  • PART II
  • 12. METHODS
  • 13. CELEBRITY
  • 14. TELEVISION/GADGET
  • EPILOGUE
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • VIDEOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS