The Consumption of Mass

Abstract

Part I -- Imagining Mass. Chapter 1 -- Individuality and Susceptibility: The Consumption of Agency in Social Structures, Barry Barnes, University of Exeter. Chapter 2 -- Pass the Salt: Materiality and the Production of Mass for Consumption, Dan Rose, University of Pennsylvania. Chapter 3 -- Consuming Mass: Mutability and Consumption, Robert Cooper, Keele University. Part II -- Community and Mass. Chapter 4 -- The Consumption of Masses: Calculating Community for Maximum Impact and Instant Obsolescence, Zygmunt Bauman, Leeds University (Emeritus). Chapter 5 -- Ordering Otherness: The Consumption and Disposal of Others, Christina Palli Monguilod, Aotonoma University. Chapter 6 -- The Waiting of Mass: Individuality and the Process of Double Forgetting, Rolland Munro, Keele University. Part III -- Writing and Mass. Chapter 7 -- All Consuming Passions: The Refiguiring of Subjectivity in later Twentieth Century Discourses of Consumption, Joanna Latimer, Keele University. Chapter 8 -- The Mystery of the Assumption: Womena s Writing and Endless Consumption, Heather Hopfl, Bolton . Chapter 9 -- The Consumption of Mass: Interpreting Luck and the Mass Average, Jane Parish, Keel University. Part IV -- Performing Mass. Chapter 10 -- The Consumption of Vagrancy, Thomas Bay and Per Backius, University of Stockholm. Chapter 11 -- The Consumption of Bass: Technoa s Funky Alien and the Contusion of Mass, Rob Beeston, Keele University. Chapter 12 -- Border Blues: Maastricht and Dada Disorder, Robert Grafton Small, Keel University