The Consumer Society Reader

“The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception.” Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, “Dialectic of Enlightenment,” translated by John Cumming, London: Verso 1979, pp. 121-131; 139—147. • “The Dependence Effect.” Excerpt from The Affluent Society. Copyright © 1958, 1969, 1976, 1998 by John Kenneth Galbraith. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Co. All rights reserved. · Selection from The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan. Copyright © 1983, 1974, 1973, 1963 by Betty Friedan. Used by permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. • “. . . Images Without Bottom . . .” From All Consuming Images by Stuart Ewen. Copyright © 1988 by Basic Books, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Basic Books, a member of Perseus Books, L.L.C. “Advertising in the Age of Accelerated Meaning.” From Sign Wars by Robert Goldman and Stephanie Papson. Reprinted by permission of Guilford Press. “Object as Image: The Italian Scooter Cycle” by Dick Hebdige. Reprinted from Hiding in the Light: On Images and Things, a Comedia book published by Routledge (London and New York), 1988. “The Act of Reading the Romance.” From Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature by Janice Radway. Copyright © 1984 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. · “Conspicuous Consumption,” pp. 68-101, from The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen, introduction by C. Wright Mills, copyright 1953, © renewed by New American Library. Used by permission of Dutton Signet, a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc. “The Aesthetic Sense as the Sense of Distinction.” Reprinted by permission of the publishers from Distinction: A Social Critique of the judgement of Taste by Pierre Bourdieu, translated by Richard Nice, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1984 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd. “False Connections” by Alex Kotolowitz. Selection from Consuming Desires, edited by Roger Rosenblatt. Published by Island Press, Washington, D.C. and Covelo, California. Selection from Skin Trade by Ann DuCille, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1996 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. • “Two Cheers for Materialism” by James Twitchell. Wilson Quarterly. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Press, 1999. • “Feminism and Fashion” by Elizabeth Wilson. Adorned in Dreams. Virago Press, Ltd., 1985. Pp. 228-247. · “Shopping for Pleasure: Malls, Power, and Resistance” by John Fiske. Reprinted by permissions of the publisher from Reading the Popular. London: Routledge. Copyright 1989. • “The Coolhunt” by Malcolm Gladwell. Originally printed in The New Yorker. Reprinted by permission of the author. • “Advertising as Cultural Criticism: Bill Bernbach versus the Mass Society” by Thomas Frank. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Copyright © 1997. Reprinted by permission of the author and the publisher. Selection from Black Looks by bell hooks. Copyright © 1992 by bell hooks. Used by permission of South End Press. Pp. 23-54 from Voluntary Simplicity by Duane Elgin. Copyright © 1981 by Duane Elgin. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. • Pp. 19-29 and pp. 185-203 from Culture Jamming by Kalle Lasn. Copyright © 1997 by Kalle Lasn. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. · “A New Kind of Rag Trade?” by Angela McRobbie. From No Seat: Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers, Copyright © 1981.