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Social Science

Consuming Reality

(PR executive to a colleague)1 Sponsored Reality We have all received at some
point a memo from a commercial company, bank, or administrator announcing
that a new policy is going to be much better for us, the consumer/employee.

Author: J. Deery

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9781137007681

Category: Social Science

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Engaging in a comprehensive examination of reality TV's advertising and promotional strategies, as well as the commodification of viewers, Consuming Reality dissects the unique and startling relation between mediation and consumption.
2012-05-03 By J. Deery
Nature

Consuming Environments

But we almost always know that fictional stories are “ made up , ” that their reality
is figurative . The codes and conventions of narrative fiction cue us to suspend
disbelief at apparent divergences from everyday reality . In contrast , nonfiction ...

Author: Mike Budd

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

ISBN: 0813525926

Category: Nature

Page: 225

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1999 By Mike Budd
Business & Economics

Consuming Experience

One of the main dimensions of today's consumption is what the sociologist
Baudrillard (1988) once termed hyper-reality. We increasingly satisfy ourselves
with a reality composed of images, accepting copies as a substitute for anything
else.

Author: Antonella Caru

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781136009662

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 208

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This book covers the ‘hot topic’ of the experiential consumption in an accessible manner and from a unique industry perspective which is not used in any other book. It highlights the idea that an experience is not something that can be readily managed by firms and is not limited to the market: an individual’s daily life is made up of consuming experiences that can occur with or without a market relation. Offering an overview of the consumption experience, it outlines a continuum of experiences of consumption that consumers go through, including: those that are mainly constructed by consumers around small items that comprise their daily life, such as organic products and non-profit or local associations those that have been co-developed by companies and consumers: tourism or adventure projects, rock concerts and cultural events those that have been largely developed by the companies where consumers are immersed in a hyper-real context such as fashion, sports brands, edutainment and retail. Broad and comprehensive, this book provides a challenging vision of the consumption experience, which is an invaluable tool for all those studying marketing and consumer behaviour.
2013-01-11 By Antonella Caru
History

Consuming History

Reality TV is the ultimate expression of this, as the ordinary person is made
extraordinary, either through makeover or public vote. Reality TV suggests that
anyone could become a winner of X-Factor or Britain's Got Talent and suggests
some ...

Author: Jerome de Groot

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317277965

Category: History

Page: 316

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Consuming History examines how history works in contemporary popular culture. Analysing a wide range of cultural entities from computer games to daytime television, it investigates the ways in which society consumes history and how a reading of this consumption can help us understand popular culture and issues of representation. In this second edition, Jerome de Groot probes how museums have responded to the heritage debate and how new technologies from online game-playing to internet genealogy have brought about a shift in access to history, discussing the often conflicted relationship between ‘public’ and academic history and raising important questions about the theory and practice of history as a discipline. Fully revised throughout with up-to-date examples from sources such as Wolf Hall, Game of Thrones and 12 Years a Slave, this edition also includes new sections on the historical novel, gaming, social media and genealogy. It considers new, ground-breaking texts and media such as YouTube in addition to entities and practices, such as re-enactment, that have been underrepresented in historical discussion thus far. Engaging with a broad spectrum of source material and comparing the experiences of the UK, the USA, France and Germany as well as exploring more global trends, Consuming History offers an essential path through the debates for readers interested in history, cultural studies and the media.
2016-02-08 By Jerome de Groot
Science

Consuming Space

Placing Consumption in Perspective Professor David Goodman, Professor
Michael Redclift, Professor Michael K Goodman ... section focuses on the
alignment of the pleasure principle and the reality principle accomplished by
consumerism.

Author: Professor David Goodman

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

ISBN: 9781409488514

Category: Science

Page: 296

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An examination of the relationship between space, place and consumption offers important insights into some of the most powerful forces constructing contemporary societies. Space and place are made and remade through consumption. Yet how do cultures of consumption discover space, and how do they construct place? This book addresses these questions by exploring the implications of conceptualizing consumption as a spatial, increasingly global, yet intensely localized activity. The work develops integrative approaches that articulate the processes involved in the production and consumption of space and place. The result is a varied, engaging, and innovative study of consumption and its role in structuring contemporary capitalist political economies.
2012-11-28 By Professor David Goodman
Business & Economics

Psychoanalytic Accounts of Consuming Desire

A second questionthat Lacanasks is,howcan the ego beadapted to reality?This
seems ratherobvious. ButLacan asks the readerto imagine that his deskis
capable of speech.The desk says itis perfectly adaptedto 'reality', or,in otherwords
,to ...

Author: John Desmond

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9781137289087

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 293

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Provides an accessible introduction to psychoanalytic explanations of consumer desire. Topics are drawn widely to reflect the scope of Freud's vision and include dreams, sexuality and hysteria. Discussion is widened to selectively include authors such as Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan, and to include evaluation of current research.
2012-11-28 By John Desmond
Business & Economics

Consuming Passion

Shopping malls, Disneyland, television, are all examples of the new stage of
hyper-reality — the falseness that is better than reality. Reality always has its
detrimental aspects like crime, homeless people, dirt. In a situation of hyper-
reality like a ...

Author: Carl Gardner

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9780415540292

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 288

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Britain’s high street revolution has made retailing one of the most important and dynamic sectorsof the British economy in the last twenty years. It has had an irreversible impact on our towns and cities and, for many people, transformed shopping from an unattractive domestic chore to a pleasurable ‘leisure ‘experience’, offering consumers an everchanging array of ‘disposable dreams’. The resulting ‘retail culture’ is everywhere – it has colonised huge areas of our social life outside the traditional high street, from sporting venues to arts centres, from railway termini to museums. Many see it as the epitome of Thatcher’s Britain, breeding acquisitive individualism and destroying our traditional manufacturing base. Others see it as a potential saviour of an ailing economy. Yet to date there has been no thorough analysis of this all-pervasive phenomenon, from its economic roots to its profound social effects. In Consuming Passion, Carl Gardner and Julie Sheppard have written the first overall study of the ‘retail revolution’ – a controversial and hard-hitting look at where retailing has come from, what it has achieved and where it is going. Key issues such as the role of design, the growth of the supermarket and shopping centre and the poor conditions of retail employment are all minutely examined. The book also discusses the very real pleasures that consumers gain from today’s enhanced shopping experience. The authors take an iconoclastic look at some of the powerful myths that have sprung up around retail: ‘the death of the high street’ scenario; the central role of credit; retailing as a major creator of employment; and the imminent possibility of ‘retail saturation’. A fascinating book for everyone who likes shopping – and even those who hate it. First published 1989.
2012-08-09 By Carl Gardner
Reference

Consuming Passion RLE Retailing and Distribution

Shopping malls, Disneyland, television, are all examples of the new stage of
hyper-reality — the falseness that is better than reality. Reality always has its
detrimental aspects like crime, homeless people, dirt. In a situation of hyper-
reality like a ...

Author: Carl Gardner

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781136260773

Category: Reference

Page: 280

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Britain’s high street revolution has made retailing one of the most important and dynamic sectorsof the British economy in the last twenty years. It has had an irreversible impact on our towns and cities and, for many people, transformed shopping from an unattractive domestic chore to a pleasurable ‘leisure ‘experience’, offering consumers an everchanging array of ‘disposable dreams’. The resulting ‘retail culture’ is everywhere – it has colonised huge areas of our social life outside the traditional high street, from sporting venues to arts centres, from railway termini to museums. Many see it as the epitome of Thatcher’s Britain, breeding acquisitive individualism and destroying our traditional manufacturing base. Others see it as a potential saviour of an ailing economy. Yet to date there has been no thorough analysis of this all-pervasive phenomenon, from its economic roots to its profound social effects. In Consuming Passion, Carl Gardner and Julie Sheppard have written the first overall study of the ‘retail revolution’ – a controversial and hard-hitting look at where retailing has come from, what it has achieved and where it is going. Key issues such as the role of design, the growth of the supermarket and shopping centre and the poor conditions of retail employment are all minutely examined. The book also discusses the very real pleasures that consumers gain from today’s enhanced shopping experience. The authors take an iconoclastic look at some of the powerful myths that have sprung up around retail: ‘the death of the high street’ scenario; the central role of credit; retailing as a major creator of employment; and the imminent possibility of ‘retail saturation’. A fascinating book for everyone who likes shopping – and even those who hate it. First published 1989.
2012-10-02 By Carl Gardner
Education

Consuming Schools

Baudrillard speaks of the compulsion to consume: 'There are no limits to
consumption ... people simply want to consume ... Transparency and
Disappearance: The Private as Obscene Consumerism entails the loss of reality
in part because it ...

Author: Trevor Norris

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

ISBN: 9781442642058

Category: Education

Page: 216

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The increasing prevalence of consumerism in contemporary society often equates happiness with the acquisition of material objects. Consuming Schools describes the impact of consumerism on politics and education and charts the increasing presence of commercialism in the educational sphere through an examination of issues such as school-business partnerships, advertising in schools, and corporate-sponsored curriculum. First linking the origins of consumerism to important political and philosophical thinkers, Trevor Norris goes on to closely examine the distinction between the public and the private sphere through the lens of twentieth-century intellectuals Hannah Arendt and Jean Baudrillard. Through Arendt's account of the human activities of labour, work, and action, and the ensuing eclipse of the public realm and Baudrillard's consideration of the visual character of consumerism, Norris examines how school commercialism has been critically engaged by in-class activities such as media literacy programs and educational policies regulating school-business partnerships.
2011-01 By Trevor Norris
Performing Arts

How Real Is Reality TV

Adorno and other members of the Frankfurt school argue that the culture industry
has subtly and successfully transfunctionalized the use value of reality television
so that it is presented to a consuming audience as not just an entertaining form ...

Author: David S. Escoffery

Publisher: McFarland

ISBN: 9781476602288

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 287

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American viewers are attracted to what they see as the non-scripted, unpredictable freshness of reality television. But although the episodes may not be scripted, the shows are constructed within a deliberately designed framework, reflecting societal values. The political, economic and personal issues of reality TV are in many ways simply an exaggerated version of everyday life, allowing us to identify (perhaps more closely than we care to admit) with the characters onscreen. With 16 essays from scholars around the world, this volume discusses the notion of representation in reality television. It explores how both audiences and producers negotiate the gulf between representations and truth in reality shows such as Survivor, The Apprentice, Big Brother, The Nanny, American Idol, Extreme Makeover, Joe Millionaire and The Amazing Race. Various identity categories and character types found in these shows are discussed and the accuracy of their television portrayal examined. Dealing with the concept of reality, audience reception, gender roles, minority portrayal and power issues, the book provides an in-depth look at what we see, or think we see, in “reality” TV. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
2014-12-03 By David S. Escoffery

The reality of faith Authorized copyright ed

When a miracle of divinity made the living God the one consuming Reality of
things to him , he did not sing : “ Lord , I am vite , conceived in sin , And born
unholy and unclean ; Sprung from the man whose guilty fall Corrupts the race ,
and taints ...

Author: Samuel Phillips Newman Smyth

Publisher:

ISBN: OXFORD:590922920

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Body, Mind & Spirit

Minding the Spirit

The abuser's voice comes to fill the victim's whole reality , crowding out any
needs or feelings or perceptions of her ... to submit his overbearing self to others '
differing reality ; the abuse victim needs to defy the abuser's consuming reality in
 ...

Author: Elizabeth A. Dreyer

Publisher: JHU Press

ISBN: 0801880777

Category: Body, Mind & Spirit

Page: 382

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The birth of an academic discipline is a rare event. Even more extraordinary is academia's acknowledgment that spirituality has scholarly as well as personal dimensions. Inquiry and dialogue are the essence of this new discipline, as it paves the way toward a deeper understanding of what it means to be human within the Christian faith. The twenty-five essays in this volume, originally published in either the Christian Spirituality Bulletin or Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality, offer groundbreaking explorations of Christian spirituality. Arranged under five broad headings, these essays create an insightful dialogue on the questions, methods, and critical approaches implemented by the discipline's top scholars. Topics addressed include the particular intellectual and methodological challenges presented by spirituality as an academic discipline, the self-implicating nature of the study of spirituality, historical perspectives, theological implications, healing as a function of spirituality, and the relationship between aesthetics and spirituality—art and spirit. Scholars working on either broad or focused themes in spirituality will benefit from this clear and accessible presentation of the salient aspects of the discipline. In their insight and historical and methodological content, these essays provide valuable tools for students and teachers of spirituality and related fields, in their insight and historical and methodological content. This volume speaks to all who practice and study spirituality from any religious or secular perspective, encouraging reflective and open dialogue with one of humanity's major religious traditions. Contributors: J. Matthew Ashley, Thomas Berry, Mark S. Burrows, Douglas Burton-Christie, Lawrence S. Cunningham, Lisa E. Dahill, Elizabeth A. Dreyer, Mary Frohlich, Belden C. Lane, Elizabeth Liebert, E. Ann Matter, Bernard McGinn, Meredith B. McGuire, Mark McIntosh, Barbara Newman, Walter H. Principe, Don E. Saliers, Sandra M. Schneiders, Philip F. Sheldrake, Jon Sobrino, Wendy M. Wright
2005 By Elizabeth A. Dreyer
Medical

Food Majesty s REALITY DIABETES

She kept envisioning eating her own skin. After losing several pounds from their “
don't mix food groups” theory, she found herself consuming more tofu than meat,
poultry or fish. Upton Sinclair's rendition of the meat packing industry just about ...

Author: MARCI PAGE SLOANE MS, RD, LDN, CDE

Publisher: Author House

ISBN: 9781481725620

Category: Medical

Page: 236

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REALITY DIABETES takes the reader into the real life drama of a person with type 2 diabetes. Marci Page Sloane, also known as Food Majesty, is a registered and licensed dietitian and a certified diabetes educator who holds a dual Master’s degree in Nutrition and Physiology from Teachers College at Columbia University. Food Majesty’s messages are shared in a humorous, yet educational, story-telling manner to guide an adult with type 2 diabetes through the challenges. By simply playing by the D-I-A-B-E-T-E-S rules you will discover the basic concepts to self-management. Marci makes learning about food, recipes, meal and snack choices as delicious as eating! You will quickly understand how to avoid or delay the complications, like heart disease, in an understandable language. For your convenience and more thorough understanding, there are charts for you to keep track of food, exercise, mood/stress levels, weight, medications/supplements and calories. All aspects of diabetes control are provided in real-life diabetes scenarios and heart-felt admissions from the real type 2s from South Florida that will warm your heart. Marci Page Sloane will walk you through the steps to allow you to live with diabetes – your way. www.FoodMajesty.com www.MarciSloane.com
2013-04-08 By MARCI PAGE SLOANE MS, RD, LDN, CDE
Health & Fitness

The Reality Diet

Another patient found, after keeping a 3-E Journal for several weeks, that he was
consuming most of his excess calories on the weekends, when he would get
together with friends to play poker or watch sports. They'd hang out, drink beer,
eat ...

Author: Steven Schnur, MD

Publisher: Penguin

ISBN: 1101215763

Category: Health & Fitness

Page: 432

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Developed by Dr. Steven A. Schnur, founder of the largest cardiology practice in south Florida, this breakthrough program is the only diet that keeps the fat off forever. Not a low-carb, low-fat, or high protein diet plan, The Reality Diet is rich with delicious foods from all food groups and high in one key fat-fighting ingredient—fiber. Fiber not only stops hunger, but it also significantly lowers the risk of heart disease, colon cancer, and a host of other conditions. By following The Reality Diet you will: - learn and apply the 2:90 Rule-the key to choosing nutritious carbs with the right fiber content - enjoy mouthwatering meals using more than 200 quick, easy recipes designed by a top recipe developer and a registered dietician - eat all the foods you love and have been told to avoid—pasta, rice, waffles, potatoes, bananas, watermelon, corn-on-the-cob - lose 2 pounds a week and 30 pounds in 3 months - learn proven strategies for maintaining your weight loss—for life Flexible and forgiving, this program is for real people living in the real world. With eight weeks of Action plan menus for men and women, tips for eating in restaurants, as well as an effective exercise program, The Reality Diet is both a comprehensive weight-loss plan and a blueprint for lifelong health.
2006-05-04 By Steven Schnur, MD
Religion

The Church and the Relentless Darkness

He wants them to never grow indifferent to this huge reality: that they have been
made alive from their former spiritual ... to assist in communicating the (to use the
currently over-used word) awesome, all-consuming reality of what God has done
 ...

Author: Robert Thornton Henderson

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

ISBN: 9781621895237

Category: Religion

Page: 224

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In a period of tumultuous transition for the church as it moves out of the Christendom era and into the unknowns of the post-Christian era, it is strange that so little has been written about the church's calling out of the dominion of darkness (Satan) and into the kingdom of Light (or, God's dear Son). The very word ecclesia speaks of a people "called out." In the New Testament the theme of spiritual warfare is ubiquitous, and yet is relegated to the margins in our present cultural whitewater. In The Church and the Relentless Darkness, Robert Henderson approaches the topic of spiritual warfare directly, and focuses on its manifestation in local Christian communities. Using the Letter to the Ephesian Christians as his base, Henderson portrays the relentless darkness that comes with all satanic subtlety on unsuspecting communities, but he brings with this a message of hope and encouraging disciplines.
2013-01-28 By Robert Thornton Henderson
Religion

The God of Yes

The all-consuming reality of death is yet another tragedy Solomon finds under the
sun. He writes of the universal nature of death and notes that, “It seems so tragic
that everyone under the sun suffers the same fate. That is why people are not ...

Author: Jud Wilhite

Publisher: Hachette UK

ISBN: 9781455515387

Category: Religion

Page: 208

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The Christian life is often defined as "no." What starts with a desire to reject descructive things morphs into a "no" to people, enjoyment, laughter, pleasure, success, and ultimately life itself. Before we know it, we've reduced the Christian faith to a huge rejection of just about everything God has created. Is it any wonder why many in our culture think of Christianity and "no" comes to mind? We need perspective. We need more than just "no." We need to experience a divine "yes" to all of life as a gift from God. Ecclesiastes, through Solomon's journals, gives us a huge dose of reality. Solomon's entire experience is a counterintuitive "yes" to God and every aspect of life. It provides a framework for a faith that squares off with reality and finds it infused with meaning. THE GOD OF YES will explore this counterintuitive approach and provide clear application on how faith can infuse meaning to the monotony of everyday life. It will flip Ecclesiastes upside down to show that it is actually affirming life in all of its parts with God at the center. It will challenge the reader that his or her life can look different even if nothing changes externally.
2014-02-04 By Jud Wilhite
Religion

Why It s Hard to Love Jesus

If we are not careful, our love for Christ can become merely another slice of life
instead of an all-consuming reality. You and I face that challenge daily. A
genuine love for Christ should provide the power to transform our response to
everything ...

Author: Joseph M. Stowell

Publisher: Moody Publishers

ISBN: 1575675900

Category: Religion

Page: 208

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Why It's Hard To Love Jesus takes a close look at the story in Luke 7 describing Simon the Pharisee and a sinful woman who anoints Jesus with expensive oil. When we're confronted with the reality of Jesus, do we remain indifferent and religious like Simon the Pharisee or do we fall at His feet in adoring worship like the woman who had been forgiven much? Joseph Stowell challenges Christians to honestly probe the answer to this penetrating question.
2003-09-01 By Joseph M. Stowell
Religion

Reading from the Underside of Selfhood

Bonhoeffer needs to submit his overbearing selfto others' differing reality; an
abuse victim needs to defy others' consuming reality in order to claim space for
her own.20 There is a whole universe within her, the uniquely created humanity
God ...

Author: Lisa E. Dahill

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

ISBN: 9781630878252

Category: Religion

Page: 284

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer's example of self-sacrificing discipleship has for over fifty years inspired Christians around the world in both their resistance to evil and their devotion to Jesus Christ. Yet for some readers--particularly those who suffer trauma, abuse, and other forms of violence--Bonhoeffer's insistence on self-sacrifice, on becoming a "person for others," may prove more harmful than liberating. For those already socialized into self-abnegation, uncritical applications of Bonhoeffer's teachings may reinforce submission, rather than resistance, to evil. This study explores Bonhoeffer's understandings of selfhood and spiritual formation, both in his own experience and writings and in light of the role of gender in psycho-spiritual development. The central constructive chapter creates a mediated conversation between Bonhoeffer and these feminist psychologists on the spiritual formation of survivors of trauma and abuse, including not only dimensions of his thinking to be critiqued from this perspective but also important resources he contributes toward a truly liberating Christian spirituality for those on the underside of selfhood. The book concludes with suggestions regarding the broader relevance of this study and implications for ministry. The insights for spiritual formation developed here provide powerful proof of Bonhoeffer's continuing and concretely contextualized relevance for readers across the full spectrum of human selfhood.
2009-01-01 By Lisa E. Dahill

The Sunday Magazine

DRIFTING . over him that could not be for other than THE visits of Vavasor , in
reality to good with any man who submitted ... with the idea of a a consuming
reality , beyond retreat and selfpossible marriage of such distinction for her
recovery .

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ISBN: UOM:39015068417669

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The Sunday Magazine

DRIFTING . over him that could not be for other than THE visits of Vavasor , in
reality to good with any man who submitted ... with the idea of a a consuming
reality , beyond retreat and selfpossible marriage of such distinction for her
recovery .

Author: Thomas Guthrie

Publisher:

ISBN: OXFORD:555027743

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