The "Educated" Consumer: The Formation of Memory, Attention, and Imagination in Consumer Culture

This article offers a critique of consumer culture that draws on Augustine's vision of human consciousness, exploring consumerism's formative effects on the memory, attention, and imagination of consumers. Drawing on William Cavanaugh's analysis of consumers' disposition of detac...

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Auteur principal: Hearlson, Christy Lang (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group [2019]
Dans: Religious education
Année: 2019, Volume: 114, Numéro: 5, Pages: 581-593
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Cavanaugh, William T. 1962- / Comportement des consommateurs / Mémoire / Attention / Consumérisme / Pédagogie des religions
RelBib Classification:AG Vie religieuse
AH Pédagogie religieuse
ZB Sociologie
Accès en ligne: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Résumé:This article offers a critique of consumer culture that draws on Augustine's vision of human consciousness, exploring consumerism's formative effects on the memory, attention, and imagination of consumers. Drawing on William Cavanaugh's analysis of consumers' disposition of detachment, it explains how consumer culture distorts memory, attention, and imagination in consumers. It addresses the effects of consumerism on declarative, episodic, and procedural memory, on open awareness and concentration, and on intellectual, fantasy, empathy, and strategic imagination. The author suggests that religious educators should consider their work a form of reattachment therapy.
ISSN:1547-3201
Contient:Enthalten in: Religious education
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/00344087.2019.1595911