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Consuming the Samurai Self (anon, “The Playboy Dialect,” 1770)
Consuming the Samurai Self (anon, “The Playboy Dialect,” 1770)
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Length:
122 minutes
Released:
May 2, 2024
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Podcast episode
Description
A close reading of “The Playboy Dialect,” a classic sharebon, or narrative of fashion and manners in the pleasure quarters of Edo-period Japan, where a consumer culture, to rival anything concocted by the capitalist dictatorships of the Century of the Self, was wielded as a weapon of class struggle by the rising urban commoner class against the de facto feudal rulers, the samurai. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
May 2, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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