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Reflections on the social imaginary and technologies of the body

Søren Askegaard et al.

Recherche et Applications en Marketing2025https://doi.org/10.1177/20515707251342446article
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Older and recently introduced technologies of body enhancement and improvement proliferate. The change in social acceptability of these technologies call for a macro-level understanding, in consumer research typically delivered through institutional or assemblage theories underlining the institutional-material embeddedness of these technologies. With a point of departure in Castoriadis’ notion of the social imaginary, we argue that in addition to these dominant material-institutional explanatory frameworks, the contemporary consumption politics of the body must be considered as also firmly anchored in the emergence of an altered social imaginary of the body as a malleable object. We outline the differences between the various approaches and propose a modelization of change in social imaginary significations. It is concluded that technologies of the body represent the ultimate consumer culture imaginary.

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@article{søren2025,
  title        = {{Reflections on the social imaginary and technologies of the body}},
  author       = {Søren Askegaard et al.},
  journal      = {Recherche et Applications en Marketing},
  year         = {2025},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/20515707251342446},
}

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0.41

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.25 × 0.4 = 0.10
M · momentum0.55 × 0.15 = 0.08
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

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