If, as Raymond Williams suggested, a culture is a “whole way of life,” then it follows that a subculture is a partial way of life. That is, subcultural participation implies a set of value orientations and practices that are neither coterminous with the entirety of a given population nor exhaustive of any one individual’s...
The productivist bias inherent in both classical economics and orthodox Marxism has delayed the recognition of the ‘consumer revolution’ that accompanied the industrial one and has come, over the course of the last century, increasingly to drive the transformation of capital. Today, however, the consumption of commodities has entangled itself with almost every facet...