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Fashion Statements: On Style, Appearance, and Reality (Repost)
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Fashion Statements: On Style, Appearance, and Reality
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan | 2010 | ISBN: 0230105424 | English | True PDF | 336 pages | 1.76 Mb
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan | 2010 | ISBN: 0230105424 | English | True PDF | 336 pages | 1.76 Mb
| “ | Fashion Statements presents an eclectic array of essays regarding the meanings of fashion to articulate the new directions of an everyday cultural phenomenon. Contributors bring insightful, playful, and accessible takes on a subject that, though very much part of popular discourse, often gets little significant attention from theoretical perspectives. Looking at fashion through the prism of race, class, gender, and technological issues, this book reflects and interprets the hybridity of contemporary cultural inquiry. Review "To think about 'what we wear' may seem to be a waste of time to some, yet it cannot be denied that we seem to live in an epoch where living is more and more defined by the fashionable. Fashion Statements offers the reader a number of innovative and thoughtful investigations and provocations, stimulating a re-thinking of what exactly the 'fashionable' means. The diverse and talented authors of these writings shed a fascinating variety of lights upon the subject—Foucault and Westwood, denim and despair, the glory and the subjection of the naked and the dressed, just to mention a few. Open up this book to any page and you will find an original reflection on fashion and its power to signify, obfuscate, imprison, swindle, protect, seduce, delight, and foil. These essays are testimony to the fact that if philosophers, critics, and cultural observateurs are to truly live up to their respective tasks, not one of them could keep their title without examining the question of the fashionable. Fashion Statements shows that philosophy can and should do a thinking of the trend 'itself'. Herein is found more than a few replies to the question Quentin Crisp put to Calvin Klein: 'What does it all mean?'"--Kevin R. MacDonald, Professor of Philosophy, The Fashion Institute of Technology About the Author Ron Scapp is a Professor of Humanities and Teacher Education and the founding director of the Graduate Program in Urban and Multicultural Education at the College of Mount Saint Vincent. He has written and edited a number of books, including Teaching Values: Critical Perspectives on Education, Politics and Culture. He is a founding member, with Brian Seitz, of Group Thought, a philosophy collective based in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Brian Seitz is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Babson College. His work focuses on representation and politics. He is the author of The Trace of Representation and co-author of Politology: The Athenians and the Iroquois. | ” |
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