Article: The Political Theology of Consumer Sovereignty: Towards an Ontology of Consumer Society
Another one from a rather unexpected corner: Stephan Schwarzkopf (Copenhagen Business School), "The Political Theology of Consumer Sovereignty: Towards an Ontology of Consumer Society" ("Theory, Culture & Society", 28 [3], May 2011: pp. 106-29).
Quote: "Just as in the political philosophy of the constitutional structure of the democratic state, the question of who is sovereign is key to understanding the ontology of consumer society. But rather than simply placing sovereignty into the hands of the independent, self-determined consumer, the earliest ontologists of the consumer society took recourse to medieval political theology and presented the consumer market as a new corpus mysticum. Thus, it is medieval political theology, not modern liberal thought, which provided for an ontologization of the consumer."
Another one from a rather unexpected corner: Stephan Schwarzkopf (Copenhagen Business School), "The Political Theology of Consumer Sovereignty: Towards an Ontology of Consumer Society" ("Theory, Culture & Society", 28 [3], May 2011: pp. 106-29).
Quote: "Just as in the political philosophy of the constitutional structure of the democratic state, the question of who is sovereign is key to understanding the ontology of consumer society. But rather than simply placing sovereignty into the hands of the independent, self-determined consumer, the earliest ontologists of the consumer society took recourse to medieval political theology and presented the consumer market as a new corpus mysticum. Thus, it is medieval political theology, not modern liberal thought, which provided for an ontologization of the consumer."
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