Consumer Culture and Postmodernism

@article{Singh2010ConsumerCA,
  title={Consumer Culture and Postmodernism},
  author={Prasidh Raj Singh},
  journal={Labor: Human Capital eJournal},
  year={2010}
}
[enter Abstract Body]Postmodernism is a variety of meanings and definitions, is used to refer to many aspects of social life from musical forms and styles, literature and fine art through to philosophy, history and especially the mass media and consumer culture. Post modernism is a slippery term that is used by writers to refer to several different things. Featherstone (1991) points out the term has been used to refer to new developments in intellectual and cultural theory. The suggestion that… 
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