Intro; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter One; Consuming Experiences, Practices and Spectacles; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Consuming Oneself and Others; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Consuming the Impossible; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Index
Summary
The cultural consumption research landscape of the 21st century is marked by an increasing cross-disciplinary fermentation. At the same time, cultural theory and analysis have been marked by successive 'inter-' turns, most notably with regard to the Big Four: multimodality (or intermodality), interdiscursivity, transmediality (or intermediality), and intertextuality. This book offers an outline of interdiscursivity as an integrative platform for accommodating these notions. To this end, a call for a return to Foucault is issued via a critical engagement with the so-called practice-turn. This r