Index

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

alienation, 73, 154, 188–90

ambience, 28, 30, 108–9, 171–2

ambivalence, 177, 182, 184, 198n; body and, 141

Americanism, 116

anomie, 5, 174–85

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

athleticism, 132, 136

authentic objects, 73, 111

Bardot, B., 130

beauty, 132–3, 134, 135

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

brand name, 27, 116, 148

Brown, N.O., 136

Cage, John, 117

capitalism, 53, 71, 83

cargo myth, 32–3

cars, 47

catastrophe, 33–6

censorship, 145, 148, 150

choice, 70, 96–7

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

competition, 11, 65, 97, 182

conformity, 70–1, 92–3

consensus, 166, 168

conspicuous consumption, 6, 54, 90

constraints, 7, 17, 61, 82–3, 84, 176

consumation, 43, 46

contradiction, 94

counter-discourse, 17, 195–6

credit, 2, 17, 29, 81

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

demand, 110; control of, 71–2

democracy of social standing, 50

depression, 182, 185

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

distinction, 92–4, 111

distortion, 52, 57

drugstores, 17, 27–30

Durkheim, É., 4, 5, 166

duty, 4, 80, 156

dysfunction, 40–1, 42, 43, 51–2, 65

economic principle, 43–4, 73

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

equilibrium, 50, 53, 66

eroticism, 133–4, 135; in advertising, 146–9

everydayness, 34–5, 118

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

fashion, 100, 133, 134, 141

fasting, 142

fatality, 36

fatigue, 181–5

Faye, A., 112–13

femininity, 96–8, 136–8

fitness, 138–40

Foucault, M., 21n

fragility, 174

free offers, 164–5

free time, 151, 153, 154, 155, 157, 158

freedom, 61, 72–3, 158

functionalism, 5, 135; body and, 132–4

gadgetry, 12, 111–14

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

guilt, 35, 176

habitat, 57

happiness, 29, 31, 42, 49

health, 38, 138–40

Held, J.-F., 146

heroes of consumption, 45–6, 195

hippies, 179, 180–1

holidays, 154, 156

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

images, 123–4, 188, 189

individual, 5, 49, 65, 83–5, 95; freedom of, 72–3; group and, 70–1, 92–3; and sociometric compatibility, 170–1

industrial system, 55–7, 72

inequality, 37–8, 53–4, 57, 59

insecurity, 40

Johns, Jasper, 117

kitsch, 12, 109–11

knowledge, 57, 108; recycling, 100–2

Kwakiutl, 43, 181

language, 6, 79–80, 93, 200n

leisure, 6, 10, 151–8

liberation of body, 14, 135, 141, 142

Lisle, E., 37, 38, 40

lowest common culture, 103–5

lowest common multiples, 105–9

ludic, 112, 113–14, 192

McLuhan, M., 123

magical thinking, 31–2, 33

Mailer, N., 153

Mandeville, B., 42

market behaviour, control, 71–2

Marx, Karl/Marxian theory, 33–4, 16, 23n

masculinity, 96–7, 98

mass culture, 103–5

mass media, 12, 35, 99–128

means of consumption, 16–17, 19, 23n, 27–30

medicine, 139, 140

Melanesia, 31–3

membership, 107–8

messages, 34, 121–2; media and, 122–4

metaconsumption, 90–2

Michel, J., 109

miracles, 31, 32, 34

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

narcissism, 95, 97, 131, 139

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

news item, 33–4, 99, 121–2

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

obsolescence, 40, 41, 46, 100

Oldenburg, Claes, 117

package, 26, 28, 107, 110, 129, 130

Parly, 2, 28, 29

passion, 114

passivity, 35, 36, 74, 183

penury, 8, 66, 67

Perroux, E, 159, 160

personalization, 7–8, 9, 87–98, 109, 139, 170

Peter Schlemihl (Chamisso), 188–9, 190

phryneism, 132, 136

pinball machines, 114

play, 10–11, 105, 114

Playtime (Tati), 164

pleasure principle, 134–5

political control, 168–9

pollution, 39

pop art, 16, 114–21, 200n

popularization, 62–3

pornography, 143

postmodernism, 9–14, 22n

potlatch, 44, 46

poverty, 7, 11, 42, 51, 67; industrial system and, 2, 8, 55–7

power, 38, 54, 57, 59, 67, 72

preservation, instinct, 44

prestige, 6, 64, 93, 139, 140

primitive society, 10–12, 21, 31, 66–7, 129, 152

privilege, 8, 38, 54–5, 66

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 opinion, 86, 195

public relations, 165

publications, weekly instalment, 107–8

Pueblo, 181

puritan ethic, 75–6, 132, 141–2

quiz machine, 103, 104–5

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

relativity, 61, 171, 173

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

Sahlins, M., 11, 66

Saint-Gobain, takeover bid for, 168–9

salvation, 8, 60, 156, 158; body as object of, 14, 129, 135–6, 140

satisfaction, 61, 69, 71, 73

scarcity, 43, 57, 66 Science et vie, 107

segmentation, 122, 123, 124

segregation, 57–8, 63

self-fulfilling prophecy, 127–8, 194

self-indulgence, 95, 97

service/s, 59, 137, 161, 163–4

sexed doll, 149–50

sexuality, 14, 133, 137, 143–5, 149–50

Shakespeare, W., 44

shop-window, 27, 166, 192

sick society, 167

sign-value, 6, 20, 77

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

smile, 120–1, 161–2

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

sociality, 162, 170–1

socialization, 4, 47, 81, 82

sociology, 5, 8–9, 20

solicitude, 12–13, 15, 141, 159–73

soul, 135, 136, 191

space, 57–8, 120

standard package, 70, 104

status, 60, 64, 138–9; body as signifier of, 131–2; culture and, 108, 110

structuralism, 6–8, 16, 79–80

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

television, 122, 123–4

therapeutic society, 167, 177

time, 10, 25, 120, 151–4, 155, 157, 158

tirlipot, 102–3

tolerance, 173

training/retraining, 81, 100, 175

transcendence, end of, 191, 192

unconscious, 93, 146–8

underconsumption, 6, 54–5, 90–1

use-value, 43, 50, 150, 152, 154, 202n

uselessness, 12, 112

utility, 43, 69, 112

Valery, P., 44

value/s, 70, 78, 172;

democratic, 163–4;

leisure and, 157–8; symbolic, 44–5;

vicarious, 97

Veblen, T., 6, 157

verres de l’amitié, 162

violence, 35–6, 143, 175–9

Warhol, Andy, 118, 119

waste, 5, 10, 42–7, 197n; of time, 154, 155

wealth, 11, 54, 67

well-being, 49–55

Whitehead, A.N., 69

women, 95–6, 97–8; beauty and, 132–3; female body, 136–8

work, 157, 185

young people, 137–8