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Author: Ben Highmore
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780415230247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing primary materials, Highmor brings together a wide range of thinkers to provide a comprehensive resource on theories of everyday life. Highmore's introduction surveys the development of thought about everyday life.
Author: Joe Moran
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-11-16
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1134372167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudying the work of important continental theorists, Joe Moran explores the concrete sites and routines of everyday life and how they are represented through political discourse, news media, material culture, photography, reality TV and more.
Author: Ben Highmore
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-09-13
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 1136905235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new study from Ben Highmore looks at the seemingly banal world of objects, work, daily media, and food, and finds there a scintillating array of passionate experience. Through a series of case studies, and building on his previous work on the everyday, Highmore examines our relationship to familiar objects (a favourite chair), repetitive work (housework, typing), media (distracted television viewing and radio listening) and food (specifically the food of multicultural Britain). A chair allows him to consider the history of flat-pack furniture as well as the lively presence of inorganic ‘stuff’ in our daily lives. Distracted television watching and radio listening becomes one of the preconditions for experiencing wonder through the media. Ordinary Lives links the concrete study of routine existence to theoretical reflection on everyday life. The book discusses philosophers such as Jacques Rancière, William James and David Hume and combines them with autobiographical testimonies, historical research and the analysis of popular culture to investigate the minutiae of day-to-day life. Highmore argues that aesthetic experience is embedded in the mundane sensory world of everyday life. He asks the reader to reconsider the negative associations of habit and routine, focusing specifically on the intrinsic ambiguity of habit (habit, we find out, is both rigid and adaptive). Rather than ask ‘what does everyday life mean?’ this book asks ‘what does everyday life feel like and how do our sensual, emotional and temporal experiences interconnect and intersect?’ Ordinary Lives is an accessible, animated and engaging book that is ideally suited to both students and researchers working in cultural studies, media and communication and sociology.
Author: Ben Highmore
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-05-09
Total Pages: 561
ISBN-13: 1000947386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesign is part of ordinary, everyday life, to be found in every room in every building in the world. While we may tend to think of design in terms of highly desirable objects, this book encourages us to think about design as ubiquitous (from plumbing to television) and as an agent of social change (from telephones to weapon systems). The Design Culture Reader brings together an international array of writers whose work is of central importance for thinking about design culture in the past, present and future. Essays from philosophers, media and cultural theorists, historians of design, anthropologists, cultural historians, artists and literary critics all demonstrate the enormous potential of design studies for understanding the modern world. Organised in thematic sections, The Design Culture Reader explores the social role of design by looking at the impact it has in a number of areas - especially globalisation, ecology, and the changing experiences of modern life. Particular essays focus on topics such as design and the senses, design and war and design and technology, while the editor's introduction to the collection provides a compelling argument for situating design studies at the very forefront of contemporary thought.
Author: Michel de Certeau
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0520271459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMichel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture. In exploring the public meaning of ingeniously defended private meanings, de Certeau draws on an immense theoretical literature in analytic philosophy, linguistics, sociology, semiology, and anthropology--to speak of an apposite use of imaginative literature.
Author: Karen E. Lovaas
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1412914434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpts from foundational work, recent journal articles and pieces written for this text about the role of communication in the construction and performance of sexualities in interpersonal contexts and public discourses.
Author: Henri Lefebvre
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781844671946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe three volumes of the radical sociologist's magnum opus—in a boxed set: a monumental exploration of contemporary society, by one of the twentieth century's great intellectuals. The Critique of Everyday Lifeis perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers. The trilogy which provided the philosophy behind the 1968 student revolution in France, it is considered to be the founding text of what we now know as cultural studies. Whether discussing sport, household gadgets, the countryside, surrealism, Charlie Chaplin or religion, Lefebvre always concentrates on the minutiae of lived experience in work and leisure, daydreams, and festivities. Denounced by both the right and left when it was first published in France in 1947, today this text is recognized as a path-breaking, radical, and hugely influential book.
Author: Elizabeth Long
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2003-08
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 0226492621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBook clubs are everywhere these days. And women talk about the clubs they belong to with surprising emotion. But why are the clubs so important to them? And what do the women discuss when they meet? To answer questions like these, Elizabeth Long spent years observing and participating in women's book clubs and interviewing members from different discussion groups. Far from being an isolated activity, she finds reading for club members to be an active and social pursuit, a crucial way for women to reflect creatively on the meaning of their lives and their place in the social order.
Author: Michael Worth Davison
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat people throughout history ate and wore, how they worked and played, how they built and furnished thir homes, and how they treated their illnesses provide the focus of the book while the great battles, the major inventions, and the rise and fall of empires serve as backdrop.
Author: Kanishka Goonewardena
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-02-19
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1135918635
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book merges two schools of thought - one that is political economic, and the other more culturally oriented - into a unified Lefebvrian approach to contemporary urban issues and the nature of our spatialized social structures.
