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The Gnostic Tourist: Gambling, Fly-Fishing, and the Seduction of the Middle Class
New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
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The Gnostic Tourist: Gambling, Fly-Fishing, and the Seduction of the Middle Class
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Fife, Wayne
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serial consumption
gambling fly-fishing gnostic tourism play late capitalism |
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Borrowing techniques from creative non-fiction, this article explores the parallels between gambling and fly-fishing in late modern capitalism. It introduces the concept of gnostic tourism and argues that some forms of contemporary leisure create moments of singularity in which the actor comes to feel as though he or she has penetrated to the heart of a deep secret. This, in turn, creates an affective state that fuels serial consumption. Implications are explored in relation to the potential for a more critical form of political consciousness.
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New Proposals Publishing Society
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2016-04-18
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article |
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application/pdf
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http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/186451
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New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry; Vol. 8 No. 2 (2016); 22-38
1715-6718 |
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eng
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http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/186451/186030
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Copyright (c) 2016 New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
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