George S Rigakos: 1 book

Book cover of Nightclub

Nightclub

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...
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