Obsessive Compulsive (Dis)Order

Abstract

GIVEN THE WIDE RANGE OF COMMODITIES and their representations dealt with in this book, there cannot be a common conclusion. In the concluding chapter, I have made a claim on the broader cultural logic of consumption. I have reiterated the manic obsession with the ‘new’ (ephemeral), the ‘now’ (instantaneous), and the ‘multiple’ (promiscuous), and examined the dis(order) of/in desiring, consuming, and exhausting. Finally, I have rested my claim by stating that the frivolity that governs our relationship with commodities is not confined to them alone. The excess of the new and the promiscuity of the multiple choices spill over to the personal and professional lives as well. Desiring to dispose of things, bodies, spaces, professions, and practices is an underlining consumerist philosophy....