TY - BOOK AU - Latham,Rob TI - Consuming youth: vampires, cyborgs, and the culture of consumption SN - 9780226468921 AV - HC110. C6 L37 2002 U1 - 658.8/34/0842 21 PY - 2002/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Consumer behavior KW - United States KW - Young adult consumers KW - Attitudes N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; INTRODUCTION / The Cybernetic Vampire of Consumer Youth Culture / The Factory of the Code / Fordism, Post-Fordism, and Youth / Consuming Youth / ONE Youth Fetishism: The Lost Boys / Cruise Mallworld / The Dual Metaphorics of Consumer Vampirism / The Trauma of Consumption / Vidkids Go Malling / Teen Idols, Fashion Victims, and Proletarian Shoppers / TWO Dreams of Social Flying: The Yuppie-Slacker Dialectic / Morbid Economies / The Phenomenology of Unbridled Consumption / Punk Nihilists and Donner Party Barbies / THREE Voracious Androgynes: The Vampire / Lestat on MTV / Insatiable Narcissism / The Consuming Hungers of Ziggy Stardust / Two Queer Nations / FOUR Microserfing the Third Wave: The Dark Side of the Sunrise Industries / Postindustrialism and “Flexible” Capitalism / Homebrews and Burnouts in Silicon Valley / Modular Selves and Posthuman Consumers / FIVE Fast Sofas and Cyborg Couch Potatoes: / Generation X on the Infobahn / Couch Commandos versus Zombie Systems / Bar-Coding Digital Youth / On the Road and On the Screen / Information Road Narratives / SIX Teenage Mutant Cyborg Vampires: / Consumption As Prosthesis / Hacking the Codez of Digital Capitalism / Cyberpunks and Technopagans / Live-Wired Teen Idols and Pretty Boy Crossovers / Decadent Utopias of Hyperconsumerism UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/uchi051/2001037803.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/uchi051/2001037803.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/uchi051/2001037803.html ER -