Celebricities: Media Culture and the Phenomenology of Gadget Commodity Life

by Anthony Curtis Adler

What becomes of life, experience, and truth in the hyperconsumeristic culture of the twenty-first century? What happens to the phenomenological call to go "back to the things themselves" when these things, to an ever greater degree, involve a televised life that is not ours to live, celebrities who are utterly like us yet infinitely untouchable, and uncannily pluripotent electronic gadgets? Combining sustained philosophical inquiry with fragmentary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823270807
• ISBN13: 9780823270804
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Modern Language Initiative
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"