Anmerkungen:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-254)
Design capitalism -- Homo capitalistes: made in consumerdom -- McDonald's media -- The aesthetonomical un/conscious -- The conscience market -- Consumption of belief -- I am as many as you are -- Designdarwinism -- J'adore no logo -- Delirium desires -- The hangover after the postmodern party
Beschreibung:
In her previous work, Swedish design theorist and critic Linda Rampell has concluded that "the only -ism after postmodernism is consumerism". The postmodern condition has become a shopmodern condition in which aesthetics and economics have merged into aesthetonomics, which defines an economy of evaluating how much a being is worth. This book explores how design consumption is no longer a simple question of making purchases and consuming goods. Instead, it means to become consumed by images, wherein even identities are consumed