Conceptualising the Consumer: Thinking Beyond the Extended and Distributed ‘Self’
Summary
A collection of articles discussing Craig J. Thompson’s proposal that our current understanding of ‘consumer research’ may soon be radically transformed.
About this Special Issue
Volume 40, Issue 7-8, 2024
Free Access Editorial
Extending and distributing the self
Mark Tadajewski
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0267257X.2024.2346021
Article Commentary
Towards an ontology of consumers as distributed networks (or the end of ‘consumer research’ as we know it?): retrospective insights from the praxeomorphism of Russell Belk’s ‘extended self’
Craig J. Thompson
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0267257X.2024.2345320
Article Commentary
Apples, oranges, and self
Russell Belk
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0267257X.2024.2346016
Open Access Article Commentary
It is not consumption technologies that have put the ‘self’ in peril
Andrei Botez & Joel Hietanen
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0267257X.2024.2346008
Open Access Article Commentary
Light selves: where (and what) are the politics in consumer culture theory?
Shona Bettany & Jack Coffin
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0267257X.2024.2346011
Open Access Article Commentary
The distributed body
Alev Pinar Kuruoglu
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0267257X.2024.2346014
Open Access Article Commentary
Reflections on a reimagined future for consumer research
Paul Hewer
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0267257X.2024.2346005
Open Access Article Commentary
An ontology of consumers as distributed networks: a question of cause and effect
Chloe Preece & Pilar Rojas Gaviria
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0267257X.2024.2346010
Open Access Article Commentary
Praxeomorphology, ontology, and renewal of post-consumer personhood
Eric Arnould
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0267257X.2024.2346012
Article Commentary
Desperately seeking the elusive epistemic consumer: reflections on reflexivity
Craig J. Thompson
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0267257X.2024.2346018
Open Access Article Commentary
Beyond the extended and distributed ‘self’: from subliminal extended selves to nonlocality and neurocapitalism
Mark Tadajewski
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0267257X.2024.2346019