accounting of growth, 41–2
advertising, 15, 46, 64, 88, 194; erotic, 146; and ideology of gift, 164–6; as mass medium, 123, 125; as messages, 121, 122; needs and, 71, 72; as pseudo-event, 126–8; and solicitation, 169–70; symbols, 145–9
affluence, 31, 39, 40, 82; growth and, 51–2, 53; as myth, 51, 193, 194, 195; in primitive societies, 11, 66–7; and violence, 175–8; waste and, 44, 45
affluent society, 2, 53, 66, 192
Alexandre, M., 81
ambience, 28, 30, 108–9, 171–2
ambivalence, 177, 182, 184, 198n; body and, 141
Americanism, 116
anxiety, 177
approval, 171–2
art, 15–16, 105–6; multiplication of, 106–9; and pop art, 115–16, 116–17
artificiality, 72, 73, 74, 173
Bardot, B., 130
body, 13–14, 129–50; liberation of, 14, 135, 141, 142
books, 123, 125; and literary prizes, 102
Boorstin, D.J., 125, 127, 194–5
Bourgeois-Pichat, J., 40
Brown, N.O., 136
Cage, John, 117
cargo myth, 32–3
cars, 47
catastrophe, 33–6
class, 8, 58–9, 62, 63, 91; culture and, 107, 111; health and, 140
Club Méditerranée, 151
code, 7–8, 17–18, 59, 60, 61, 79–80, 125, 126; of signs, 94
collections, 26
communication, 103, 166, 169; mass, 10, 33–4, 35, 103; personalized, 161
compatibility, 170–1
conspicuous consumption, 6, 54, 90
constraints, 7, 17, 61, 82–3, 84, 176
contradiction, 94
culture, 15–16, 97–8, 104, 108, 173; class and, 107, 111; dissemination, 106–7; production, 101–2; recycling, 100–2, 109
curiosity, 34, 80, 108, 114; pop art and, 120
democracy of social standing, 50
destruction/destructiveness, 43, 47, 177
Devil, pact with, 187–93
Dichter, E., 75–6
differences: pop art and, 119–20; positive and negative, 61–2; production, 88–90
differentiation, 7, 53, 92–4, 156; growth society and, 60–6, 74; see also personalization
display, 158
dysfunction, 40–1, 42, 43, 51–2, 65
education, 37–8
egoism, 84
Eisenhower, D., 82–3
Elle, 130–1
emancipation, 137–8
enjoyment, 78; as obligation, 80
environmental nuisance, 39–41
equality of consumption, 49–55, 59
eroticism, 133–4, 135; in advertising, 146–9
examination, 104
exchange, 78, 125–6, 152, 153–4, 160; see also symbolic exchange exchange-value, 26, 108, 132, 149–50
expenditure, 58;
collective, 37–9, 40; sumptuary, 46, 53, 194; as waste, 44, 45
fantasies, in advertising, 146–9
fasting, 142
fatality, 36
fatigue, 181–5
Faye, A., 112–13
fitness, 138–40
Foucault, M., 21n
fragility, 174
free offers, 164–5
free time, 151, 153, 154, 155, 157, 158
functionalism, 5, 135; body and, 132–4
Galbraith, J.K., 2, 51–2, 54, 55, 83; on needs, 70, 71–5
genealogy of consumption, 75
gift, 26, 67; ideology, 164–6, 168
grand narrative, 20–1
growth, 40, 53–4, 55, 73–4; affluence and, 2, 51–2, 53; and differentiation, 60–6
habitat, 57
Held, J.-F., 146
heroes of consumption, 45–6, 195
human relations, 11, 12, 15, 67, 160–2; functionalized, 163–4; production, 170–1, 172
hunter-gatherers, 10–11, 31, 66–7
hygiene, 141–2
ideology, 4, 59, 82, 123; altruistic, 83–4; of body, 135–6; in pop art, 116, 117, 118, 119; of well-being, 50–1
individual, 5, 49, 65, 83–5, 95; freedom of, 72–3; group and, 70–1, 92–3; and sociometric compatibility, 170–1
inequality, 37–8, 53–4, 57, 59
insecurity, 40
Johns, Jasper, 117
knowledge, 57, 108; recycling, 100–2
liberation of body, 14, 135, 141, 142
lowest common culture, 103–5
lowest common multiples, 105–9
McLuhan, M., 123
Mailer, N., 153
Mandeville, B., 42
market behaviour, control, 71–2
Marx, Karl/Marxian theory, 33–4, 16, 23n
mass culture, 103–5
means of consumption, 16–17, 19, 23n, 27–30
Melanesia, 31–3
membership, 107–8
messages, 34, 121–2; media and, 122–4
metaconsumption, 90–2
Michel, J., 109
mobility: of labour, 40; social, 63, 64, 108, 110, 171
modern society, 10–12
monopoly production, 89
Multiple, 106–9
myth, 17, 42, 51, 69, 82, 127, 138; of consumption, 193–6; of time, 151, 154
nature: pop art and, 117; recycling, 100–1
needs, 50, 62, 63–4, 65, 69–70, 76–8; conditioning, 71–6; and production, 64–5, 74–6, 83; system, 74–5
newness, 113
Nietzsche, E, 44
non-violence, 179–81
objects, 25–6, 41–2, 47, 115; art and, 115–17; bodies and, 134–5; cultural, 91–2, 111; gadgets and, 112; needs and, 74, 76–8; profusion, 26–7; status and, 60
Oldenburg, Claes, 117
package, 26, 28, 107, 110, 129, 130
passion, 114
personalization, 7–8, 9, 87–98, 109, 139, 170
Peter Schlemihl (Chamisso), 188–9, 190
pinball machines, 114
Playtime (Tati), 164
pleasure principle, 134–5
political control, 168–9
pollution, 39
popularization, 62–3
pornography, 143
poverty, 7, 11, 42, 51, 67; industrial system and, 2, 8, 55–7
preservation, instinct, 44
primitive society, 10–12, 21, 31, 66–7, 129, 152
production, 5, 46, 52, 63, 71–2; consumption and, 3–4, 7, 19–20, 78, 81–3; needs and, 64–5, 74–6, 83
profusion, 26–7
proving oneself, 171–2
pseudo-events, 125–8
pseudo-objects, 12, 110, 121–3
psychoanalysis, 147
public relations, 165
publications, weekly instalment, 107–8
Pueblo, 181
puritan ethic, 75–6, 132, 141–2
reality, 12, 33–4, 126, 128, 149–50; denial, 99–100; mass media and, 122; in pop art, 116, 117, 118
recognition, 119
recycling of culture, 100–2, 109
redistribution, 37–9, 52, 55, 160
referendum, 168
rejection of affluence, 175, 176, 179–80, 181
repression, 137, 141, 142, 145, 190
resurrection, 99–100
revolution, 4, 7, 8, 13, 82, 138; code and, 94; of well-being, 50–5
Riesman, D., 70, 88, 93, 170, 171, 172, 181
Rimbaud, A., 145
Rosenquist, James, 117
sacralization, 41; of art, 119; of body, 132, 136, 139–40
Saint-Gobain, takeover bid for, 168–9
salvation, 8, 60, 156, 158; body as object of, 14, 129, 135–6, 140
scarcity, 43, 57, 66 Science et vie, 107
self-fulfilling prophecy, 127–8, 194
service/s, 59, 137, 161, 163–4
sexed doll, 149–50
sexuality, 14, 133, 137, 143–5, 149–50
Shakespeare, W., 44
sick society, 167
signification, 7, 27, 33, 60, 88, 115, 125
signs, 78, 79, 122, 124, 192; in advertising, 147–8; body and, 133–4, 138; consumption as system of, 7, 14, 15, 17, 33, 34; and difference, 90–1, 94; and pop art, 115–16, 120
simulation, 11–13, 111, 126, 163
sincerity, 172–3
ski resorts, 28
slimness, 140–3
social discrimination, 54, 57–8, 59, 156
social integration, 84, 104, 168, 170, 194
social labour, 75, 84, 85, 190
social logic, 9, 11, 19, 43, 49–68, 77, 93
social rights, 58
social transfers, 37–9, 159–60
solicitude, 12–13, 15, 141, 159–73
status, 60, 64, 138–9; body as signifier of, 131–2; culture and, 108, 110
Student of Prague, 187–8, 189, 190
Sullerot, E., 95
Swift, J., 163
symbolic exchange, 10, 12, 21, 67, 93;
sexuality as, 149–50
symbolic meanings, 114–15
Tati, J., 164
taxation, 38
technology, 54, 112, 113, 191, 202n
time, 10, 25, 120, 151–4, 155, 157, 158
tirlipot, 102–3
tolerance, 173
training/retraining, 81, 100, 175
transcendence, end of, 191, 192
underconsumption, 6, 54–5, 90–1
use-value, 43, 50, 150, 152, 154, 202n
Valery, P., 44
democratic, 163–4;
leisure and, 157–8; symbolic, 44–5;
vicarious, 97
verres de l’amitié, 162
waste, 5, 10, 42–7, 197n; of time, 154, 155
well-being, 49–55
Whitehead, A.N., 69
women, 95–6, 97–8; beauty and, 132–3; female body, 136–8
young people, 137–8