From Consumer to Construer: Travels in Human Subjectivity
Year: 2015
Type: preprint
Abstract: A key component of how human beings organize their lives is how they perceive and make sense of what it means to be human; that is, their subjectivity. Human subjectivity has taken on different dominant forms across history, the consumer being one of the most dominant contemporary form. Based on current and potential trends we argue, with a deliberate tone of optimism about transformative potential of the human condition, that if the contemporary iconographic culture is transcended, there is the possibility of a subject that transcends the consumer, a construer subject. In contrast to what largely exists in extant literature – extrapolating from the consumer subjectivity to post-human subjects – we envision the possibility of an epochal cultural change that will provide the ground for a construer subjectivity to emerge. We offer some preliminary insights into what such subjectivity may entail.
Source: SSRN Electronic Journal
Authors: Fuat Fırat, Nikhilesh Dholakia
Institutions: Arizona State University, University of Rhode Island
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2270448909