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Book SynopsisConsumerist Encounters elucidates how our all-consuming relationship with objects and their representations have transformed rapidly over the last few decades in contemporary urban India.
Table of ContentsList of Images Preface Acknowledgement Introducing the Interactions 1. "If Your Jeans are Original, How Come Everyone Else has One?": Representation of Exclusionary Attitudes in Advertisements 2. Discovering Lineage amidst Urban Anonymity: Role-Playing through Images of Things 3. Peer-Reviewed Images: Image Consuming Selves as Visual Commodities 4. Till it Lasts the Wash: Attached Messages, Detached Consumers, and the Trajectory of T-shirt 5. Material Callings in an Outsourced Outpost: Accounts of an Aspiring Consumer 6. The Visual Access and Excess: New Ways of Seeing and Sharing 7. After the Tourists Depart: Visual Postmortem of a New Tourist Destination 8. The Afterlife of Things: Inorganic Transplants in the Liminal Debris of Consumer Culture 9. Visuality of Materials and Materiality of Visuals: Loss of Material Sovereignty in an Abandoned Industrial Site 10. Obsessive Compulsive (Dis)Order: The Ephemeral, Instantaneous, Promiscuous Index About the Author
