Consumidores y consumo

 

    from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

Consumers, Consuming, Consumerism

 

 

Applebaum, K. "The Sweetness of Salvation: Consumer Marketing and the Liberal-bourgeois Theory of Needs." Current Anthropology 39 (1998): 323–349.

Bardavío, José María. "La mujer casada (Une femme mariée, Jean-Luc Godard, 1964)." Bañeras en el cine 8 Jan. 2016.*

         http://bathtubsinfilms.blogspot.com.es/2015/01/la-mujer-casada-une-femme-mariee.html

         2016

Bauman, Zygmunt.  "2. Individualidad." In Bauman, Modernidad líquida. México: FCE, 2003. Rpt. 2015. 49-98.* (Capitalism, Consumerism, Addiction, Compulsion, Consumer society, Buying, Freedom, Individualism)

Beltrán Blázquez, José Ramón. "¿Es la basura un error de diseño?" The Conversation 9 Aug. 2022.*

https://theconversation.com/es-la-basura-un-error-de-diseno-184771

2022

Bianchi, Marina. The Active Consumer: Novelty and Suprise in Consumer Choice. London: Routledge, 1998.

Bowlby, Rachel. Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1985.

Campbell, Colin. The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism. Oxford: Blackwell, 1987.

Campbell, John Y. and John H. Cochrane. "By Force of Habit: A Consumption-Based Explanation of Plantation of Aggregate Stock Market Behavior." (May 1998). (Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) Working Paper No. 412). Available at SSRN:

http://ssrn.com/abstract=1870

http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1870

         2015

Chronis, Athinodoros, Eric J. Arnoud and Ronald D. Hampton. "Gettysburg Re-imagined: The Role of Narrative Imagination in Consumption Experience." Consumption, Markets and Culture (2012): 1-26.

         http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10253866.2011.652823

         Online at Academia:

         https://www.academia.edu/5888469/

         2020

Cortina, Adela. Por una ética del consumo. Madrid: Taurus, 2002.

Cruise, James. Governing Consumption.  C. 2000.

Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. L'Anti-Œdipe. Paris: Minuit, 1972.

_____. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. New York: Viking, 1977.

_____. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem and Helen R. Lane. New York: Viking, 1977.

_____. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem and Helen R. Lane. Preface by Michel Foucault. London: Athlone, 1984.*

Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Affluent Society. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958.

_____. The Affluent Society. Harmondsworth: Penguin-Pelican, 1962. Rpt. 1962. 1963. 1965. 1967, 1968.

_____. The Affluent Society.  2^nd ed., rev. London: Hamish Hamilton 1969.

_____. The Affluent Society. 2^nd ed., rev. Harmondsworth: Penguin / Hamish Hamilton, 1970. Rpt. 1971. 1973. 1974. 1975.*

García Landa, José Ángel. "La catarsis postindustrial." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 22 July 2005.*

         https://garciala.blogia.com/2005/072201-la-catarsis-postindustrial.php

         2025

_____. "La catarsis postindustrial." Blog de notas 22 July 2005. In García Landa, Vanity Fea 22 July 2025.* (Spielberg, postmodernity, consumerism)

         https://garciala.blogia.com/2005/072201-la-catarsis-postindustrial.php

         2025

         https://x.com/JoseAngelGLanda/status/1947513409894769003

         2025

____. "El panóptico del consumo." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 2 Feb. 2006.

         http://garciala.blogia.com/2006/020204-el-panoptico-del-consumo.php

         2006-03-01

_____. "Compra productos españoles." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 2 Nov. 2021.*

         https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2021/11/compra-productos-espanoles.html  

         2021

Goatly, Andrew. "Chapter 7: Advertising and Consumerism." In Goatly, Critical Reading and Writing: An Introductory Coursebook. London: Routledge, 2000. 183-214.*

Hagens, Nate. "Fleeing Vesuvius: The Psychological Roots of Resource Over-Consumption." The Oil Drum 11 May 2011.*

         http://www.theoildrum.com/node/7901

         2012

Harris, Marvin. "¿Por qué consumimos de forma conspicua?" In Harris, Nuestra especie. 3rd. ed. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2011. 366-69.*

Honneth, Axel. Verdinglichung. Eine anerkennungstheoretische Studie.

_____. Reificación: Un estudio en la teoría del reconocimiento. (Conocimiento). Madrid: Katz, 2007.

Hughes. "El otro misterio pascual." La Gaceta 25 April 2025.*

         https://gaceta.es/opinion/el-otro-misterio-pascual-20250425-0600/

         2025

Laermans, Rudi. "Aprendiendo a consumir: Los primeros grandes almacenes y la formación de la moderna cultura del consumo (1860-1914)." El consumo: Perspectivas económicas y sociales. Revista de Occidente 162 (Nov. 1994): 121-44.*

Lledó, Emilio. "'Contigo, al fin del mundo'." 1987. In Lledó, Días y libros: Pequeños artículos y otras notas. Ed. Mauricio Jalón. Salamanca: Junta de Castilla y León, Consejería de Cultura y Turismo, 1994. 123-25.* (Consumerism).

Mackay, Hugh, ed. Consumption and Everyday Life. London: Sage, 1997.

Marcuse, Herbert. "Liberation from the Affluent Society." In Critical Theory and Society: A Reader. Ed. Stephen Eric Bronner and Douglas MacKay Kellner. London: Routledge, 1989.

Martín Gaite, Carmen. "Navidad de consumo." Diario 16 27 Dec. 1976. Rpt. in Martín Gaite, Tirando del hilo (artículos 1949-2000). Ed. José Teruel. Madrid: Siruela, 2006. 67-68.*

Radner, Hilary. Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks, and Consumer Culture. London: Routledge, 2011.

Radner, Hilary, Pekka Sulkunen, John Holmwood, and Gerhard Schulze, eds. Constructing the New Consumer Society. New York: Macmillan, 1997.

Ritzer, George. The McDonaldization of Society. Newbury Park (CA): Pine Forge Press, 1993.* (Social structure, US society, postmodernism, consumer society, postindustrial society, consumerism, standardization, alienation, control).

_____. La Mcdonalización de la sociedad. Barcelona: Ariel, 1996.

_____.  El encanto de un mundo desencantado: revolución en los medios de consumo. Barcelona: Ariel, 2000.

Saad, Gad. The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption.

_____. The Consuming Instinct.

Sánchez Ferlosio, Rafael. "Non olet." In Sánchez Ferlosio, QWERTYUIOP: Ensayos IV - Sobre enseñanza, deportes, televisión, publicidad, trabajo y ocio. Ed. Ignacio Echevarría. Barcelona: Penguin Random House - Debate, 2017. 263-441. (Money, economy, consumerism; "Trabajo y ocio"; "Homo emptor").

_____. "Las cajas vacías." Lecture, 11 Feb. 1993. In Sánchez Ferlosio, QWERTYUIOP: Ensayos IV - Sobre enseñanza, deportes, televisión, publicidad, trabajo y ocio. Ed. Ignacio Echevarría. Barcelona: Penguin Random House - Debate, 2017. 447-55. (Consumerism).

Shirky, Clay. "RIP the Consumer, 1900-1999." Clay Shirky's Writings about the Internet (May 2000).

         http://www.shirky.com/writings/consumer.html

         2004

Tratner, Michael. "Cultural Autonomy and Consumerism: Their Eyes Were Watching God." In Tratner, Deficits and Desires: Economics and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Literature. Stanford (CA): Stanford UP, 2001. 173-94.*

Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class. 1899. Boston: Hougton Mifflin, 1973.

_____. Teoría de la clase ociosa. Prologue and trans. Carlos Mellizo. (El libro de bolsillo: Sociología). Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2004. 2011.*

_____. "4. El consumo ostensible." In Veblen, Teoría de la clase ociosa. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2004. 2011. 90-119.*

 

 

 

 

 

Blogs

 

 

Homo Consumericus. Blog at Psychology Today. (Gad Saad).*

         https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/homo-consumericus/

         2020

 

 

 

 

 

Internet resources

 

 

Mouthshut.com. Consumers' opinion website.

         http://www.mouthshut.com/

         2007

 

 

 

 

Journals

 

Consumption, Markets and Culture (2012).

 

The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research. Journal. London: Routledge. Vol. 5 (1995).

 

 

 

Literature

 

Caballero, Ernesto. Naces, consumes, mueres. Metadrama.

Kinsella, Sophie. Shopabolic. 2000.

_____. Shopabolic Abroad. Novel. 2001.

_____. Loca por las compras en Manhattan. Trans. Enrique Alda Delgado. Barcelona: Salamandra, 2002. Rpt. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 2004. (Trans. of Shopabolic Abroad).

_____. Loca por las compras prepara su boda. 2002.

Ravenhill, Mark. Shopping and Fucking. Drama. 1996.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video

 

 

Bricker, Darrell, and John Ibbitson. "Empty Planet: Preparing for the Global Population Decline." Video. YouTube (Centre for International Governance Innovation) 4 April 2019.* (Growth, Population, Consumption, Aging, Malthusianism).

         https://youtu.be/bSAgHvETNSg

         2024

 

Diary of a CEO. "Yuval Noah Harari: They Are Lying About AI! The Trump Kamala Election Will Tear the Country Apart." Video. YouTube (The Diary of a CEO) 5 Sept. 2024.* (Alien intelligence, Institutions, Trust, Bots, Freedom of speech, Bureaucracy, Social engineering and consumption, Robotic takeover, Social conflicts, indoctrination and brainwashing)

https://youtu.be/78YN1e8UXdM

         2024

 

Gielen, Tim. "Monopoly: Who Owns the World? Must See." Rumble (stopworldcontrol) 1 Oct. 2021.* (Capitalism, Corporations, Lobbies, Investors, Blackrock, Vanguard, Rothschild, Rockefeller, Soros, Clinton, Gates, WHO, Manipulation, Organizations, Media, Control, Disney, Comcast, Bertelsmann, Project Syndicate, WEF, Schwab, UNICEF, Greenpeace, Al Gore, Larry Fink, Christine Lagarde, Consumerism, Sustainability, Communism, New World Order, politicians, organized crime, UN, Agenda 2030, Chatham House, Marc van Ranst, vaccines, information manipulation, fear, public opinion, Deep State, Lennon, Kennedy, Assange, Isaac Kappy, John McAfee; Orwell, disinformation, censorship, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, lockdowns, face masks, protest, resistance).

         https://rumble.com/vn7lf5-monopoly-who-owns-the-world-must-see.html

         2022

 

Taylor, Diana. "Labyrinth of Things." Lecture at the Radcliffe Institute. YouTube (Harvard University) 10 April 2015.*

         https://youtu.be/8v-wAKvJOVo

         2015

 

Wallace, David Foster. "David Foster Wallace Uncut Interview" (ZDF, 2003). YouTube (David Vaipan) 28 April 2013.*

         http://youtu.be/FkxUY0kxH80

         2014

 

West, Geoffrey. "The Simplicity, Unity & Complexity of Life from the Biosphere to the Anthroposphere." Video lecture. YouTube (Hopkins Natural Philosophy Forum) 18 March 2024.*  (Sustainability, Systems, Networks, Evolution, Complexity, Structures, Scale, Size, Growth, Economy, Infrastructures, Postindustrial society, Cities, Telephones, Interactions, Energy, Metabolism, Consumption, Anthopocene, Collapse, Paradigm shifts, Innovations, Malthus, John von Neumann, Singularity, Longevity).

https://youtu.be/pjJFzZpBN2c

2024

 

 

 

 

 

See also Shopping; Consumer society; Reification.

 

Sociedad de consumo

 

    from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

Consumer Society

 

 

Alonso Benito, Luis Enrique, and Gregorio Rodríguez Cabrero. "Necesidades sociales y crisis de los consumos públicos." El consumo: Perspectivas económicas y sociales. Revista de Occidente 162 (Nov. 1994): 61-6.*

Ang, Ien. "Culture and Communication: Towards an Ethnographic Critique of Media Consumption in the Transnational Media System." European Journal of Communication 5 (1990): 239-68. Rpt. in What Is Cultural Studies? A Reader. Ed. John Storey. London: Arnold, 1996. 237-54.

Barrau, Aurélien. Le plus grand défi de l'historie de l'humanité: Face à la catastrophe écologique et sociale. (Document). Paris: Michel Lafon, 2019.

Bartlett, Albert A. "Arithmetic, Population and Energy." Video lecture. U of Colorado at Boulder. 2002.*

         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY&feature=relmfu

         2011

_____. "Aritmética, población y energía." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 17 Sept. 2011.* (Alfred A. Bartlett).

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2011/09/aritmetica-poblacion-y-energia.html

         2011

Baudrillard, Jean. La société de consommation.  Paris: Denoël, 1970.

_____. La génesis ideológica de las necesidades. (Cuadernos Anagrama 140). Barcelona: Anagrama [1970s].

Bauman, Zygmunt. "Culture as Consumer Co-operative." In Bauman, Postmodernism and Its Discontents. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1997. 127-40.*

_____.  Mundo consumo. Barcelona, Buenos Aires and México: Paidós.

_____.  "2. Individualidad." In Bauman, Modernidad líquida. México: FCE, 2003. Rpt. 2015. 49-98.* (Capitalism, Consumerism, Addiction, Compulsion, Consumer society, Buying, Freedom, Individualism)

Bowlby, Rachel. Shopping with Freud.  London: Routledge, 199-?

Brewer, John, Neil McKendrick an J. H. Plumb, eds. The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialisation of Eighteenth-Century England. London: Europa, 1982.

Bryson, Bill. Made In America. London: Secker, 1994.

Casares Ripol, Javier. "Influencia de las marcas y de las formas comerciales en el consumidor." El consumo: Perspectivas económicas y sociales. Revista de Occidente 162 (Nov. 1994): 107-20.

Castillo Castillo, José. "La vida social del consumo." El consumo: Perspectivas económicas y sociales. Revista de Occidente 162 (Nov. 1994): 77-94.

Dagognet, François. "El consumo: una cuestión tratada con excesivo apresuramiento." El consumo: Perspectivas económicas y sociales. Revista de Occidente 162 (Nov. 1994): 95-106.*

Dorfles, Gillo. Símbolo, comunicación y consumo. Ediciones de Bolsillo.

du Gay, Paul. Consumption and Identity at Work. Sage, 1996.

El consumo: Perspectivas económicas y sociales. Revista de Occidente 162 (Nov. 1994).

Cuadrado Roura, Juan R. "Los españoles como consumidores de bienes, de servicios y de tiempo." El consumo: Perspectivas económicas y sociales. Revista de Occidente 162 (Nov. 1994): 23-44.

Dehesa, Guillermo de la. "El consumo: Importancia económica y factores determinantes." El consumo: Perspectivas económicas y sociales. Revista de Occidente 162 (Nov. 1994): 7-22.

Featherstone, Mike. "Perspectives on Consumer Culture." Sociology 24.1 (February 1990).

Ferguson, Harvie. "Watching the World Go Round: Atrium Culture and the Psychology of Shopping." In Lifestyle Shopping: The Subject of Consumption. Ed. Rob Shields. London: Routledge, 1992.

Frow, John. Time and Commodity Culture: Essays in Cultural Theory. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997.

Han, Byung-Chul. La sociedad del cansancio. Barcelona: Herder.

_____. Psicopolítica: Neoliberalismo y nuevas formas de poder. Barcelona: Herder, 2014.

_____. En el enjambre. Herder.

_____. La expulsión de lo distinto. Barcelona: Herder, 2017.

Haug, Wolfgang Fritz. Critique of Commodity Aesthetics: Appearance, Sexuality, and Advertising in Capitalist Society.  Trans. Robert Bock. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1986.

Houellebecq, Michel. El mundo como supermercado. Barcelona: Anagrama.

Jameson, Fredric. "Postmodernism and Consumer Society." In Postmodern Culture. Ed. Hal Foster. London and Sydney: Pluto, 1985. 111-25.

_____. "Postmodernism and Consumer Society." In Postmodern Debates. Ed. Simon Malpas. (Readers in Cultural Criticism). Houndmills: Palgrave, 2001. 22-36.*

Kaplan, E. Ann. Rocking Around the Clock: Music, Television, Post-Modernism and Consumer Culture. London: Methuen, 1987.

Laermans, Rudi. "Aprendiendo a consumir: Los primeros grandes almacenes y la formación de la moderna cultura del consumo (1860-1914)." El consumo: Perspectivas económicas y sociales. Revista de Occidente 162 (Nov. 1994): 121-44.

Lupton, Ellen, and J. Abbott Miller. The Bathroom, the Kitchen and the Aesthetics of Waste: A Process of Elimination. Princeton Architectural Press, for the MIT List Visual Arts Center, 1992.

Mackay, Hugh, ed. Consumption and Everyday Life. London: Sage, 1997.

Marinas, José Miguel. "La fórmula del bazar: ética y cultura del consumo." El consumo: Perspectivas económicas y sociales. Revista de Occidente 162 (Nov. 1994): 163-86.*

Ortega y Gasset, José. La rebelión de las masas. Madrid: Revista de Occidente, 1933.

_____. La rebelión de las masas.  13th ed. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1937. 13th ed. 1956. 19th ed. 1972.*

Purdy, Daniel L. The Tyranny of Elegance: Consumer Cosmopolitanism in the Era of Goethe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, c. 1999.

Radner, Hilary. Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks, and Consumer Culture. London: Routledge, 2011.

Ritzer, George. The McDonaldization of Society. Newbury Park (CA): Pine Forge Press, 1993.* (Social structure, US society, postmodernism, consumer society, postindustrial society, consumerism, standardization, alienation, control).

_____. La Mcdonalización de la sociedad. Barcelona: Ariel, 1996.

Shields, Rob, ed. Lifestyle Shopping: The Subject of Consumption. London: Routledge, 1992.

Shirky, Clay. "RIP the Consumer, 1900-1999." Clay Shirky's Writings May 2000.

         http://www.shirky.com/writings/consumer.html

         2004

Silverstone, Roger. "Television and Consumption." In Silverstone, Television and Everyday Life. London: Routledge, 1994. 104-31.*

Spindler, Michael. "The Generation of a Consumer Culture in the 1920s." In XVIII Congreso de AEDEAN (Alcalá de Henares, 15-17 diciembre 1994). Ed. Ricardo J. Sola, Luis A. Lázaro and José A. Gurpegui. Alcalá: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alcalá, 1997. 777-82.*

Storey, John. Cultural Consumption and Everyday Life. London: Edward Arnold, 1999.

Sulkunen, Pekka, John Holmwood, Hilary Radner and Gerhard Schulze, eds. Constructing the New Consumer Society. New York: Macmillan, 1997.

Tratner, Michael. "The Author as Consumer: The Financier." In Tratner, Deficits and Desires: Economics and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Literature. Stanford (CA): Stanford UP, 2001. 46-71.* (Dreiser).

_____. "Consumer Cooperation, Gender Cooperation: Virginia Woolf's Answer to War." In Tratner, Deficits and Desires: Economics and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Literature. Stanford (CA): Stanford UP, 2001. 91-120.*

Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class. 1899. Boston: Hougton Mifflin, 1973.

_____. The Theory of the Leisure Class. Ed. Martha Banta. (Oxford World's Classics). Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007.*

_____. Teoría de la clase ociosa. Prologue and trans. Carlos Mellizo. (El libro de bolsillo: Sociología). Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2004. 2011.*

Willis, Susan. "Sweet Dreams: Profits and Payoffs in Commodity Capitalism." In Willis, A Primer for Daily Life. London: Routledge, 1991. 13-57.*

 

 

 

 

Literature

 

 

Caballero, Ernesto. Naces, consumes, mueres. Metadrama.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video

 

 

Barrau, Aurélien. "Le plus grand défi de l'histoire de l'humanité - conférence d'Aurélien Barrau." Video lecture, Théâtre de la Madeleine, Paris, 22 Oct. 2019. YouTube (Aurélien Barrau) 8 Jan. 2020.*

         https://youtu.be/Chei_TGABEs

         2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See also Post-Industrial Society; Capitalism; Consumerism.