Media, Information and Technoculture 2151A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Culture Jamming, Paraphilic Infantilism, Fredric Jameson
20 Sep 2017
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Conspicuous consumption: lavish spending only to display income. Conspicuous waste: show that you can afford to be wasteful. Invidious comparison: comparison that rates people in terms of relative worth; something used to base judgement is fashion: ex. Fetish: factitious (artificial) + facere (make: commodity and sexual (satc) Week eight marketing to mad men i. Great masculine renunciation: period in the 18th century where men rejected the colourful clothing of the previous century for a sober, masculine, uniform outfit to represent their seriousness and professionalism. Butterfly dandy: a figure of ridicule in the 19th c, a man wearing ornamental clothing, thus feminizing himself. The peacock revolution: from esquire"s statement, (cid:498)the peacock has replaced the penguin(cid:499), men of the 60s could now consume more conspicuously. Power dressing: dressing to convey power, authority, and wealth in the 80s. Metrosexual: straight man of the 21st century who cares about how he looks: ex.
