... in contemporary culture and how viewers appropriate, or not, the particular lifestyles that are communicated across popular media forms. © BERG 2010 PRINTED IN THE UK 2011 celebrity lifestyle consumption taste television We made sauce mornay endlessly at catering college, as we did glossy...

...) misses a crucial point regarding the relation between philosophy and comedy. Insofar as philosophy, love of wisdom, is irreducible to wisdom—insofar as, in other words, philosophy is also a matter of taste (a concept which seeks to combine knowledge and pleasure)—the Clouds can be read as an ironic-comic...

...Andrea Pavoni This article explores the making and tasting of wine through the anonymous processes of nonhuman consumption that participate in the production of its relational ontology (the terroir) and shape its visceral encounter with the human tongue (taste). First, the author defines a notion...

... of a political imperative to speak your mind, and in terms of an aesthetic imperative to communicate one’s judgment of taste. In fact, Lyotard (1997 : 209) writes that the system “is but the extension to language of the same routine of exchange: interlocution, interactiveness, transparency, and debate, words...

... on a number of fashions and attires, as well as on comfortable and beautiful new pieces of furniture and other tasteful artifacts, which are being produced either in Germany or abroad. Hence we encourage our discerning, refined, and knowledgeable readers to help us perfect our journal by submitting further...

..., vani vanam.” 7 The taste for luxury is often frivolous in itself. Ascetic morality must condemn its excesses, but we cannot deny that it sometimes serves as a useful spur for a sizeable portion of frail humanity. There may seem no point in women wearing silk dresses, rare furs, diamond necklaces...

... in that of the first. In the argument I range here against that of Apel—and to cast light on what I believe to be at stake in the “foundation crisis”—I shall connect with the study of reflexivity two other features that are closely dependent in Kant's work: the receptivity that is involved in the judgment of taste...

... that Kant uses the term aesthetic in two different ways. In the Critique of Pure Reason the term refers to space and time as a priori forms of intuition, while in the Critique of the Power of Judgment it picks out two particular kinds of reflective judgments: that of taste (beauty...

... . Bourdieu Pierre . 1984 . Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Bourdieu Pierre Passeron Jean- Claude 1977 . Reproduction in Education, Society, and Culture . London : Sage . Bowley Graham Barboza David...

... that contributed to, for instance, the spirit of luxury as a depraved, unfair, and unfeeling spirit. His argument is that luxury is not only produced by people with immense natural gifts or those who possess enormous wealth and power and who endeavor to disseminate the taste for luxury but also by people who...

... ). This turn to the visceral is exemplified by Lynda Johnston and Robyn Longhurst (2012) , who interrogate the emotions that surface through cooking and eating among migrant women in Hamilton, New Zealand. In noting that “taste and smell were the senses that prompted feelings, memories and new connections...

... or orientates what and how we eat is, at one level, the stuff of common sense. From the learned acquisition of “manners”—of how to handle knives and forks or chopsticks, or with which hand to eat—to the “acquired” tastes we learn to like (or learn that we shouldn’t like), these are practices...

... visceral encounter with the human tongue (taste).” By undertaking “the task of attuning to the nonhuman materiality of consumption,” he interrogates the many human and nonhuman agencies involved in processes of wine fermentation. This analysis brings into view the multidirectionality of these relationships...

... will feel a little bit better, but you are not healed of course. 1 There is no cure, only a taste for the enormity of our problems. We can imagine Sloterdijk almost physically performing a judgement of taste by literally examining the palatal, alveolar, and labial qualities of the English...

... categories (e.g. who counts as a “foreign talent” or “investor”). In contrast, consumer subject categories are more often than not self-selected by individuals in a more ephemeral and ad hoc fashion, depending on the particularities of their tastes and the extent of their disposable income at a given point...

...Carrie Moyer © BERG 2007 PRINTED IN THE UK 2007 Remember the Sixties? I do. Or, at least, I think I do. All that patchwork and long, straight hair. My first taste of “tofurkey.” There are palpable images of women offering me food as we warmed ourselves around a bonfire in Washington...

... to combine productive activities with learning and teaching, with experimentation and research, with the creation of new tastes, favors and materials, and with the invention of new forms and techniques of agriculture, building, and medicine, etc. Communal self-providing workshops will be globally...

... politicians to account. Helen Powell and Sylvie Prasad extend the discussion of the political into an analysis of lifestyle television and the celebrity expert. They argue that such celebrities act as cultural (and sometime political) intermediaries in the transmission and shaping of public taste – here...

... (1818)—or fans of the (mad) scientist depicted over the history of film, oscillating somewhere between genius, God, and gangster, have left a certain taste of unease or discontent, to reference a Freudian title. Didn't COVID-19 arise from a lab, so the controversy goes? But then, didn't the COVID...

... of sales charts, and its inscription of taste communities. Most interesting here is Young’s critical take on superficially subversive lists compiled by participatory fan cultures, which, he argues, in fact overlook the role played by the material form of the list in preemptively structuring cultural...