Mobilizing the consumer: assembling the subject of consumption

Article Abstract:

The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in England (TIHR) has focused on examining how changing psychological conceptions of people influenced changing concerns of companies interested in marketing their products, but advertisers have not paid much attention to the work of TIHR. The psychologists at TIHR working with advertisers treated consumers as highly problematic entities, and their analyses of the ways to govern consuming passions has profound cultural implications.

Psychological aspects, Research, Analysis, Marketing, Marketing research, Market research, Consumer behavior

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The politics of life itself

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This article uses Michel Foucault's suggestion that contemporary politics calls life into question in order to examine contemporary biopolitics. The author analyzes developments in the life sciences, biomedicine, and biotechnology using concerns regarding the truth in life sciences, molecular politics, the logic of control, risk politics, the technologies themselves and ethnopolitics.

United States, Pharmaceutical industry, Political aspects, Ethical aspects, Politics, Biomedical engineering

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Revisiting bodies and pleasures

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Issues discussed concern Michel Foucault's theory of sexuality, in particular his shift in focus from sex-desire to bodies and pleasure. Topics addressed include how sexuality is structured in relation to sexual difference, the power dynamics of sexual theory, and lesbian and gay interpretations of Foucault.

Sex, Sexual behavior, Social aspects, Critical Essay, Gay and lesbian studies, The History of Sexuality (Book)

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