Consumerist Encounters elucidates how our all-consuming relationship with objects and their representations have transformed rapidly over the last few decades in contemporary urban India.
Consumerist Encounters elucidates how our all-consuming relationship with objects and their representations have transformed rapidly over the last few decades in contemporary urban India.
Sreedeep Bhattacharya is a Sociologist. He is currently Associate Professor at Shiv Nadar University. As a sociologist and as a photographer, he engages with various aspects of the contemporary visual, material and popular cultures. His ongoing research projects include 'themed sites of consumption', 'representation of commodities in cinema', 'making of the fashion image', and 'print advertisements in colonial Bengal'. He is also working on an autobiographical account on adolescent experiences titled 'Trauma'.
Inhaltsangabe
* List of Images * Preface * Acknowledgement * Introducing the Interactions * 1. "If Your Jeans are Original, How Come Everyone Else has One?": Representation of Exclusionary Attitudes in Advertisements * 2. Discovering Lineage amidst Urban Anonymity: Role-Playing through Images of Things * 3. Peer-Reviewed Images: Image Consuming Selves as Visual Commodities * 4. Till it Lasts the Wash: Attached Messages, Detached Consumers, and the Trajectory of T-shirt * 5. Material Callings in an Outsourced Outpost: Accounts of an Aspiring Consumer * 6. The Visual Access and Excess: New Ways of Seeing and Sharing * 7. After the Tourists Depart: Visual Postmortem of a New Tourist Destination * 8. The Afterlife of Things: Inorganic Transplants in the Liminal Debris of Consumer Culture * 9. Visuality of Materials and Materiality of Visuals: Loss of Material Sovereignty in an Abandoned Industrial Site * 10. Obsessive Compulsive (Dis)Order: The Ephemeral, Instantaneous, Promiscuous * Index * About the Author
* List of Images * Preface * Acknowledgement * Introducing the Interactions * 1. "If Your Jeans are Original, How Come Everyone Else has One?": Representation of Exclusionary Attitudes in Advertisements * 2. Discovering Lineage amidst Urban Anonymity: Role-Playing through Images of Things * 3. Peer-Reviewed Images: Image Consuming Selves as Visual Commodities * 4. Till it Lasts the Wash: Attached Messages, Detached Consumers, and the Trajectory of T-shirt * 5. Material Callings in an Outsourced Outpost: Accounts of an Aspiring Consumer * 6. The Visual Access and Excess: New Ways of Seeing and Sharing * 7. After the Tourists Depart: Visual Postmortem of a New Tourist Destination * 8. The Afterlife of Things: Inorganic Transplants in the Liminal Debris of Consumer Culture * 9. Visuality of Materials and Materiality of Visuals: Loss of Material Sovereignty in an Abandoned Industrial Site * 10. Obsessive Compulsive (Dis)Order: The Ephemeral, Instantaneous, Promiscuous * Index * About the Author
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