Clements, Paul. 2024. Review: Howard Feather, ‘Social Theory of Displacement: Adventures in the Everyday’. Theory, Culture & Society: Global Public Life, [Article]

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Social Theory of Displacement: Adventures in the Everyday, Feather, Howard (2024) London: Austin Macauley, 200pp, p/back.

Reviewed by Paul Clements

Howard Feather examines the disorientation and self-estrangement of (post)modern life and theorises the displacement of social meanings and practices within capitalist modernity through the process of translation. Disorientation concerns disinformation and the effects of consumerism, contractualism and systematic ideological manipulation, in light of lived experience. The signature trait of displacement is dualism fostering physical and internal exile, and the binary effects of past and present, agency and structure, outer empirical and inner cognitive worlds, and particular and general understandings and realities. Feather outlines the conundrums of living in parallel worlds, whereby reciprocity and everyday social networks that enable us to express our identity and agency are continually displaced through a form of double-take equivalence. His trans-disciplinary focus employs a range of theories, examples and analysis to show how we ‘find ourselves’ in this confused social space that presents itself as the genuine article whilst exacerbating our social anxiety.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Book Review
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Institute for Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurship (ICCE)
Dates:	Date Event 18 September 2024 Published
Item ID:	37718
Date Deposited:	10 Oct 2024 14:22
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2024 14:23
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/37718

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