Celebricities : media culture and the phenomenology of gadget commodity life
Adler, Anthony CurtisAuthor
A phenomenological account of the forms of life characteristic of late capitalism - including television, celebrity culture and personal electronics - culminating in an ontology of the gadget-commodity that brings together Marxist theories of commodity fetishism and ideology with Heidegger's attempt to think truth as unconcealment.
Specialized.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A phenomenological account of the forms of life characteristic of late capitalism - including television, celebrity culture and personal electronics - culminating in an ontology of the gadget-commodity that brings together Marxist theories of commodity fetishism and ideology with Heidegger's attempt to think truth as unconcealment.
Specialized.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 2, 2016).
Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
Materialism
Mass media and culture
Popular culture
Philosophy
Philosophy & Religion