Bouncers, Risk, and the Spectacle of Consumption
by
George S. Rigakos
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
People go to nightclubs to see and be seen - to view others as aesthetic objects and to present themselves as objects of desire. Rigakos argues that this activity fuses surveillance and aesthetic consumption - it fetishizes bodies and amplifies social capital, producing violence and crises fuelled by...