Consuming Youth
Subtitle: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: May 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780226468914
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Popular culture; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Literary Criticism; American - General; Marketing - Research; Business & Economics / Marketing / Research; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Attitudes; Consumer behavior; Consumers; United States; Young adult consumers
First sentence: In my introduction I focused principally on the political-economic implications of Marx's metaphor of the vampire-cyborg: how it allows a critique of the capitalist factory as an undead machine that feeds upon and incorporates workers' living substance.