In the name of love

Whilst reflecting on the Margins of Consumption seminar day, in a supervisory meeting, Sue, Mike and I came to discuss aspects of Sue’s research on Love (and its effects on consumption habits). Mike and I identified parts of our own research that related to this, particularly in relation to the aspect of compromising our habits [...]

Looking forward to the new iPhone 3G.

I’ve just been reading Bauman’s relentlessly depressing The Individualized Society.  There is a short essay on instant gratification that deals in part with the way our ability to either locate ourselves in any grand narrative of progress, or to defer gratification for a later time (or life) is lost and replaced with individualised consumer experiences [...]