Consuming youth : vampires, cyborgs, and the culture of consumption / Rob Latham.
Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002. Description: x, 321 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780226468921; 0226468925 (paper : alk. paper)Subject(s): Consumer behavior -- United States | Young adult consumers -- United States -- AttitudesDDC classification: 658.8/34/0842 LOC classification: HC110. C6 | L37 2002Online resources: Publisher description | Contributor biographical information | Table of contentsItem type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations |
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Fischer Hall Library Main shelves | HC110. C6L37 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | B007258 |
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 /