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...Introduction Imagine if critical social theorists littered their conversations and writings with terms like 'advertorial', or 'infotainment', in an unselfconscious or unexamined manner. The use of such terms tends to make us wince, because they are easily seen as the jargon of the advertising...

...The concept of life-style seems to have been thoroughly naturalised, both academically and in common parlance. There is little critical interrogation of what life-style involves, beyond its connection to cultural and aesthetic aspects of consumption. What are the implications of accepting this...

...As well as being a cultural product itself, literature provides a means for the critical interrogation of the processes of cultural production and consumption in class-structured capitalist society. Realist narrative, Utopian speculation and dystopian conjecture have all been used to good effect....

...Patrick Hamilton emerged as a well-regarded author during the 1920s and 1930s and, in terms of subject, 'Hamilton wrote best about the social milieux of middle class southern England, in the voice of a bourgeois Marxist' (McKenna, 1994: 241). As such, he combined popular melodramatic stage...

...Henri Lefebvre Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life Continuum, London, 2004, 169 pp. ISBN 0-826-47299-0 (pbk) £15.99 Stuart Elden Understanding Henri Lefebvre: Theory and the Possible Continuum, London, 2004, 288 pp. ISBN 0-826-47002-5 (hbk) £60 ISBN 0-826-47003-3 (pbk) £19.99...

...Introduction Imagine if critical social theorists littered their conversations and writings with terms like 'advertorial', or 'infotainment', in an unselfconscious or unexamined manner. The use of such terms tends to make us wince, because they are easily seen as the jargon of the advertising...

...The concept of life-style seems to have been thoroughly naturalised, both academically and in common parlance. There is little critical interrogation of what life-style involves, beyond its connection to cultural and aesthetic aspects of consumption. What are the implications of accepting this...

...As well as being a cultural product itself, literature provides a means for the critical interrogation of the processes of cultural production and consumption in class-structured capitalist society. Realist narrative, Utopian speculation and dystopian conjecture have all been used to good effect....

...Patrick Hamilton emerged as a well-regarded author during the 1920s and 1930s and, in terms of subject, 'Hamilton wrote best about the social milieux of middle class southern England, in the voice of a bourgeois Marxist' (McKenna, 1994: 241). As such, he combined popular melodramatic stage...

...Henri Lefebvre Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life Continuum, London, 2004, 169 pp. ISBN 0-826-47299-0 (pbk) £15.99 Stuart Elden Understanding Henri Lefebvre: Theory and the Possible Continuum, London, 2004, 288 pp. ISBN 0-826-47002-5 (hbk) £60 ISBN 0-826-47003-3 (pbk) £19.99...