Lars Svendsen dives into that world in Fashionexploring the myths, ideas, and history that make up haute couture, the must-have trends over the centuries, and the very concept of fashion itself. Sign in Create an account. Lars Svendsen dives into this world in Fashion: Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Fashion — A Philosophy by Lars Fr. The Law, Culture, and Economics of Fashion.
A Philosophysvendseh the myths, ideas, and history that makes up haute couture, the must-have trends over the centuries, and the very concept of fashion itself. Twitter Tweets by ChicagoDistrib. Moscow on the Fashion Map: Kevin rated it liked it Jan 12, Svendsen draws upon the writings of thinkers from Adam Smith to Roland Barthes to analyze fashion as both a historical phenomenon and a faehion of aesthetics.
University of Chicago Press: Sign in to use this feature. He also traces the connections between the concepts of fashion and modernity and ultimately considers the importance of evolving fashions to such fields as art, politics, and philosophy.
About Contact News Giving to the Press. All in all, this book in itself is a harbinger of new theories about fashion and popular culture that heavily influence the general public, and brings a fresh perspective on the subject. Quotes from Fashion — A Philo Phjlosophy critiquing a relentless media culture that promotes perfect bodies or parsing the never-ending debate over the merits of conformity versus individual style, Lars Svendsen offers an engaging and intriguing analysis of fashion and the motivations behind its constant pursuit of the new.
History is combined with contemporary material, academic views with concrete aesthetics; designers are used as examples and are treated on a par with great thinkers — nothing is too big or too small to be included in his considered analyses.
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He also traces the connections between the concepts of fashion and modernity and ultimately considers the importance of evolving fashions to such fields as art, politics, and philosophy. Books by Lars Fr. I like his lack of complicity with his subject. Published October 30th by Reaktion Books first published Lars Svendsen dives into this world in Fashion: Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.
I never thought philosophy could be this much fun! Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. With his trademark larss wit, he deftly dismantles many of the axioms of the industry and its supporters.
A state that legitimises itself and ensures the obedience of its citizens by the use of fear is not basically creating a democracy, since the strategy of fear undermines the liberty that is the core of democracy.
Of course the logical starting point is to identify fear as an emotion, and a potentially powerful one at that. Fear, in many situations can be a direct motivator for action, and it has interplay between a catalyst to fight when channelled into anger i.
The main factor of fear is that it focuses its concentration on an external object or situation, onto which the drive of the emotion is projected, so one is usually afraid of something. It is always directed at something. What distinguishes fear from anger, sorrow or joy is not the object in itself but the interpretation of it. For fear to announce itself, the threat must be perceived as being serious.
For example, many people find a thrill in riding rollercoasters, whereas I personally am afraid of doing so, due to a combination of fear of heights, and the unpleasant feeling of leaving ones stomach behind you, which also manifests itself in me personally when experiencing turbulence in an aeroplane. I am not generally afraid of flying, but turbulence serves to remind me simultaneously of the vulnerability of essentially being in a metal tube at great altitude, and adds the discomfort I experience on rollercoasters into the mix of emotions at play, whilst pondering the possibility of an imminently impending death.
This is of course, the very vital component of fear, a potential risk to ones safety. Such is the nature of fear, and can be easily applied to the cultural fears which pervade Western society. But fear can also become dysfunctional. It does so when a disparity arises between fear an object, or when it cause us to 'lose our heads'. Whether it's fear of the spectre of terrorism, climate change, crime, immigration, the illuminati, war, or the overnight end of our civilisation; the theme is the same whether it is an abstraction fashioned into the object of fear, we are as a culture endemically afraid of some disastrous circumstance or event threatening the status quo of our everyday lives.
The usual reaction to such threats is a cry for action, "This is outrageous, and something must be done! Advertising, television, education, print media, online media, tablet devices, smartphones, etc. Now that the Cold War and its ever present threat of nuclear annihilation have run their course, it seems that governments and their media mouthpieces are forever attempting to drum up new ways for the public to be kept afraid, and to increase funding for programs to seemingly combat the object to which this public fear has been directed towards.
Its function is to promote various political practices. Strong interests of a political and economic nature have considerably inflated the danger of terror. In the US, the states are granted funding to combat terrorism, that is based, among other things, on the number of terrorist targets in that state.
This, of course, creates an incentive to report as many such targets as possible, in order to get more funding. The fear of said threat can also become inflated as government action to combat it, ends up promoting it. In the example of terrorism, government programs to combat it can end up promoting it, which in turn creates a feedback loop where the public becomes even more afraid of terrorism. The authorities are constantly on guard when the fear of a phenomenon grows.
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