 | Celebricities: Media Culture and the Phenomenology of Gadget Commodity Life Subjects: Materialism -- United States; Mass media and culture -- United States; Popular culture -- United States; Heidegger Martin 1889–1976; Marx Karl 1818–1883; A phenomenological account of the forms of life characteristic of late capitalism--including television, celebrity culture, and personal electronics--culminating in an ontology of the gadget-commodity that brings together Marxist theories of commodity fetishism and ideology with Heidegger's attempt to think truth as unconcealment. Adler Anthony Curtis : Anthony Curtis Adler is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Yonsei University's Underwood International College in South Korea. |
