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Travel Literary

Shopping Cart Pantheism

by (author) Jeanne Randolph

Publisher
Arbeiter Ring Publishing
Initial publish date
Nov 2015
Category
Literary, Critical Theory, Literary
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781894037754
    Publish Date
    Nov 2015
    List Price
    $10.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781894037617
    Publish Date
    May 2015
    List Price
    $14.95

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Glorifying consumerism as the de facto religion of our time, Shopping Cart Pantheism offers a preposterous yet challenging invitation to participate in commodity worship. As our narrator meanders the Las Vegas Strip, its sites and monuments become examples of Christian sainthood, miracles, worship, and dogma now transformed into icons of consumerism. Satiric, witty, and deeply insightful, Shopping Cart Pantheism reveals the fraught beginnings of the twenty-first century’s most pervasive neurosis.

About the author

Jeanne Randolph is one of Canada's foremost cultural theorists. She is the author of the influential book Psychoanalysis & Synchronized Swimming (1991) as well as Symbolization and Its Discontents (1997), Why Stoics Box (2003), and Ethics of Luxury (2007). A practicing psychoanalyst, Dr. Randolph is also known as an engaging lecturer and performance artist. She has spoken on topics ranging from the aesthetics of Barbie to the philosophy of Wittgenstein in universities and galleries across Canada, England, Australia, and Spain.

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