Comfort and Contemporary Culture

ISBN-13: 9781032536538 / Twarda / 2023 / 160 str.

Australia) Hickey Andrew (University of Southern Queensland

Opis

Utilising analyses of popular culture and ethnographic accounts of everyday life, Comfort and Contemporary Culture works through case study accounts of comfort’s enactment to pose questions around what it means to live, now.

Spis treści

Section 1 The Condition of Comfort 1. Comfort, where? The Dimensions of Comfort 2. Situating the Argument 3. The Narrative Construction of Comfort 4. But Again; Comfort? Some Final, Initial, Notes Section 2 Permutations of Comfort: A Pragmatic Consideration of Comfort’s Surfacings 5. Upon Booking the Flight: The Physiographies of Comfort 6. A Trip to the Shops: Comfort’s Ethical Recognition 7. A Visit to the Oncology Ward: Comfort as an Observable State of Being 8. In the Living Room: The Securitization of Comfort Section 3 Permeations of Comfort: A Further Consideration of Comfort’s effects 9. Comfort’s Individualisation: The Cruel Optimism of Comfort 10. Afflict the Comfortable, Comfort the Afflicted: Comfort and the Reformation of the ‘Good Life’

O autorze

Andrew T Hickey is Professor of Communications in the School of Humanities and Communication, University of Southern Queensland.