At 09:27 AM 9/21/00 -0400, you wrote:
>some of the best examples are available in another new book from Schor,
>coedited with Douglas Holt, The Consumer Society Reader. The benchmarks
>make the book worth buying: Marx on commodity fetishism; Veblen on
>"conspicuous consumption"; Galbraith on how corporations manufacture
>desires that they claim to be satisfying; Baudrillard on how consumer
>desires resemble the logic of dreams; Betty Friedan's matchless chapter
>from The Feminine Mystique on the fabrication of a new, hyper-consuming
>housewife ideal in the '50s.
I don't see how Marx on commodity fetishism fits with the rest of these.
He's dealing with a completely different topic.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
