Fergal Schmudlach
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Consuming the Samurai Self (anon, “The Playboy Dialect,” 1770)
🕑 Added 2024-05-02 07:27:03 +0000 UTCA close reading of “The Playboy Dialect,” a classic sharebon, or narrative of fashion and manners in the pleasure quarters of Edo-period Japan, where a consumer culture, to rival anything concocted by the capitalist dictatorships of the Century of the Self, was wielded as a weapon of class struggle by the rising urban commoner class against the de facto feudal rulers, the samurai.
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Fergal Schmudlach
Thank you! Yeah we all know the type, especially among expats in Japan actually
The Return Of The Repressed
Got some farming done listening to this today, a very pleasant experience, thank you! God do I hate 'the man about town'...
Fergal Schmudlach
I’m glad you dig it: if you find yourself caught up in a scene, surrounded by clout sharks, maybe this can help you find some sanity
Aaron Berge
Ngl this is hitting just right for me and I appreciate you allowing me to take a peep at an eastern perspective!
