Abel, Marco, 71–72

Adorno, T.H., 6

advertising, 4–5, 16, 20, 35–38, 55, 78, 101, 104, 109, 129, 142

ambivalence, xii, xiv, 2–3, 6–7, 20, 25–27, 29, 32, 34–36, 46, 49–50, 64, 68, 71–72, 79–80, 88, 95, 102–103, 110, 116–117, 123, 127–128, 130, 132, 145–147, 149–150, 156, 161, 163–164, 166, 171, 180, 187–188, 190, 202

art, xii-xiv, 7, 39–44, 50–51, 73, 112–114, 118–120, 132, 135–136, 138–140, 143, 146–148, 157, 184–185, 202

Barthes, Roland, xii, 5, 31, 33–34, 36–38, 45–46, 49

Baudrillard, Jean

America, 201

The Consumer Society, 17, 19, 25, 27, 32, 39, 41, 94, 109, 117, 126, 136–138, 146, 160, 180, 184, 188

For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign, 22–26, 32–33, 49, 62, 72, 76–78, 88, 91, 116, 127–128, 145, 149, 172

The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, 86

The Mirror of Production, 97

Simulacra and Simulations, 156

The Spirit of Terrorism, 54, 60, 63, 65–66, 86, 88, 122–123, 130, 182, 193, 198

Symbolic Exchange and Death, 55–56, 59, 61, 67, 87, 112, 119, 123, 127–128, 141, 143, 160, 163, 166, 170, 172, 181–182, 185, 187

The System of Objects, 11–12, 15, 22–23, 47–48, 81, 194

Begley, Adam, 104, 111

Benjamin, Walter, 6, 119–120

binary, 22–23, 26–27, 29, 46, 50, 115

Bonca, Cornel, 168

Bruce, Lenny, 152–157

Bush, George W., 72

Butterfield, Bradley, 88

capital, xiii, 22–23, 56, 65, 97, 160, 163, 189, 199–201

capitalism, 5, 22, 64, 76, 93, 96–98, 135, 187, 189, 190, 197–198, 201–202

Carmichael, Thomas, 99–100

Certeau, Michel de, 10–11

Chaloupka, William, 122

Cixous, Helene, 161–162, 164, 178

Cocksucker Blues, 140, 144, 146–147, 150

commodification, xii, 22–23, 33, 61, 119, 139, 150–151, 154, 157, 164

commodity fetishism, 23

consumer culture, xii, 2–4, 6–7, 10, 14, 16, 19–21, 26, 29, 34, 39, 40, 42–44, 48, 57, 64–68, 70–71, 76, 82, 86, 88–89, 93–94, 100, 102, 108, 110, 112–113, 116–117, 118, 125, 127–128, 130, 132, 135–136, 138, 140–142, 148, 150–151, 156–157, 161, 187, 190