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One of the reasons I find Lasch interesting so many years later is that I find that he does not distinguish as people often do between the individual self …
Cultural narcissism and the symbolic meaning of yoga The culture of narcissism Three questions are crucial to understand this process of diffusion and build up of critical mass. First …
We notice the strong conflation of processes generating critical mass and a crucial difference at this point on the curve: this was the time of the fitness discourse of …
Suddenly things started to happen as we moved into the information and service society of corporate capitalism – the postmodern consumer culture took off. So did the fitness and …
In this initial phase the spread would have been fairly slow and restricted to the urban middle classes – the cultural intermediaries – mainly in the US: fashion models …