consumption

is a kind of hysterical flight driven by an insatiable sense of 'lack.

defines consumption as a kind of hysterical flight driven by an insatiable sense of 'lack.'

is a metric whereby people have been getting more and more equal. That is the fraction of families that have a dishwasher, a sewing machine, and a television set is increasingly small.

If instead of looking at income, you look at levels of consumption, if anything that's become more equal. The fraction of families that have a dishwasher, that have a sewing machine, that have a television set. In respect to consumption, it's very hard to avoid the view that people have been getting more equal rather than more unequal. Milton Friedman

is a moment of production in that, the individual who produces an object, by then consuming it, returns to himself, and returns as a productive and self reproducing individual.

The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production. Karl Marx

is a power strategy. It is not the things themselves that are consumed, but the status value that is ascribed to them when they are made into symbols.

Baudrillard defines consumption not merely structurally as a system of symbols and their changes, but also as a power strategy. Consumption becomes a system of coded symbols or symbols carrying meaning. He maintains that the status value of things is not the same as their actual practical value. It is not the things themselves that are consumed, but the status value that is ascribed to them when they are made into symbols.' (The Feminine Ideal By Marianne Thesander)

is a secondary production hidden in the process of its utilization.

the presence and circulation of a representation (taught by preachers, educators, and popularizers as the key to socioeconomic advancement) tells us nothing about what it is for its users. We must first analyze its manipulation by users who are not its makers. Only then can we gauge the difference or similarity between the production of the image and the secondary production hidden in the process of its utilization'

is a systematic and total idealist practice, which far exceeds our relations to objects and relations among individuals, one that extens to all manifestations (registres) of history, communication and culture.

a systematic and total idealist practice, which far exceeds our reltions to objects and relations among individuals, one that extens to all manifestations (registres) of history, commuication and culture.'

is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.

Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant. Karl Marx

is an active, collective behavior: It is something enforced, a morality, an institution. It is a whole system of values, with all that expression implies in terms of group integration and social control functions.

[A]n active, collective behavior: it is something enforced, a morality, an institution. It is a whole system of values, with all that expression implies in terms of group integration and social control functions. (Baudrillard xvi)

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