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The potential of clothing and fashion is rarely appreciated in mainstream academic literature; often it is relegated to the margins with labels such as ‘ephemeral’ or ‘frivolous’. Yet, clothing (and fashion in particular) provides one of the most explicit examples of global consumerism. The significance of this form of consumerism can be amplified through the writings of German philosopher Hans Jonas in his discussion of metabolism of life (Jonas 1992). This concept explores the temporal means of replenishing people’s desire to resist decay and death by means other than food, drink, sleep, etc. These claims are situated further in my second section where I introduce aesthetics.
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King, I. (2015). Fashion and the Mobile Body: The Value of Clothing and Fashion for Merleau-Ponty’s Concept of Chiasm. In: Sonnenburg, S., Wee, D. (eds) Touring Consumption. Management – Culture – Interpretation. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-10019-3_6
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