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Consuming Life

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With the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consumers. In this new consumer society, individuals become simultaneously the promoters of commodities and the commodities they promote. They are, at one and the same time, the merchandise and the marketer, the goods and the travelling salespeople.

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Consuming Life, Zygmunt Bauman

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2007
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Language
English
Publisher
Polity Press
Released
2007
Format
Paperback
Pages
168
ISBN10
0745640028
ISBN13
9780745640020
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With the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consumers. In this new consumer society, individuals become simultaneously the promoters of commodities and the commodities they promote. They are, at one and the same time, the merchandise and the marketer, the goods and the travelling salespeople.