Getting Loose
Book • 2007
In 'Getting Loose: Lifestyle Consumption in the 1970s', Sam Binkley examines how self-loosening narratives in lifestyle publishing helped the middle class confront modernity during the 1970s.
The book explores the rise of a genre of lifestyle publishing that blended Eastern mysticism, Freudian psychology, and environmental ecology, offering advice on living a more authentic life.
Drawing on the thought of Pierre Bourdieu and Zygmunt Bauman, Binkley traces the evolution of these narratives from an emancipatory call to a culture of commercialized consumption.
The book explores the rise of a genre of lifestyle publishing that blended Eastern mysticism, Freudian psychology, and environmental ecology, offering advice on living a more authentic life.
Drawing on the thought of Pierre Bourdieu and Zygmunt Bauman, Binkley traces the evolution of these narratives from an emancipatory call to a culture of commercialized consumption.
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