Performing Consumers is an exploration of the way in which brands insinuate themselves into the lives of ordinary people who encounter them at branded superstores. Looking at our performative desire to lsquo;try onrsquo; otherness; Maurya Wickstrom employs five American brandscapes to serve as case studies: Ralph Lauren; Niketown; American Girl Place; Disney store and The Lion King; and The Forum Shops at Caesarrsquo;s Palace in Las Vegas. In this post-product era; each builds for the performer/consumer an intensely pleasurable; somatic experience of merging into the brand and reappearing as the brand; or the brandrsquo;s fictional meanings.To understand this embodiment as the way that capital is producing subjectivity as an aspect of itself; Wickstrom casts a wide net; drawing on:the history of capitalrsquo;s relationship with theatrepolitical developments in the United Statesrecent work in political science; philosophy; and performance studies. An adventurous study of theatrical indeterminancy and material culture; Performing Consumers brilliantly takes corporate culture to task.
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