All Aboard the Louis Vuitton Train!
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Leif Dahlberg
Leif Dahlberg is professor in Communication at The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, and associate professor in Comparative Literature at Stockholm University. His research interests include art, communication and media studies, comparative literature and critical legal theory, with special focus on the intersections of law, mobility and technology. His most recent publications include: “Melancholic Face-off. Caryl Phillips’ Elegy over David Oluwale,” in
Diaspora, Law and Literature , ed. Klaus Stierstorfer (Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming);Spacing Law and Politics: The Constitution and Representation of the Juridical (London: Routledge, 2016); “Det akademiska samtalet,” inUniversitetet som medium , eds. Matts Lindström & Adam Wickberg Månsson (Lund: Mediehistoria, 2015), 195–223; “Unwelcome Welcome – Being ‘at Home’ in an Age of Global Migration,”Law Text Culture 17 (2013): 44–84.
Abstract
The article discusses fashion advertising as a means to access and understand contemporary social imaginary significations of the body politic, focusing on an advertising for Louis Vuitton. The article suggest that one can read advertising as a form of continuous, running commentary that society makes of itself, and through which one can unearth the social imaginary. The article finds a plethora of meanings in the selected advertising for Louis Vuitton, but the central finding is that the fashion advertising represents community as an absence of community; in other words as a deficit that the brand somehow is able to rectify.
About the author
Leif Dahlberg is professor in Communication at The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, and associate professor in Comparative Literature at Stockholm University. His research interests include art, communication and media studies, comparative literature and critical legal theory, with special focus on the intersections of law, mobility and technology. His most recent publications include: “Melancholic Face-off. Caryl Phillips’ Elegy over David Oluwale,” in Diaspora, Law and Literature, ed. Klaus Stierstorfer (Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming); Spacing Law and Politics: The Constitution and Representation of the Juridical (London: Routledge, 2016); “Det akademiska samtalet,” in Universitetet som medium, eds. Matts Lindström & Adam Wickberg Månsson (Lund: Mediehistoria, 2015), 195–223; “Unwelcome Welcome – Being ‘at Home’ in an Age of Global Migration,” Law Text Culture 17 (2013): 44–84.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Focus
- Focus: Law, Fashion and Identities
- Theory: Dressing and Law
- Fashion as an Institutional System
- Clothing, Law and the Institution of the Subject’s Internal Normativity
- Fashion & Performance
- Playing it Fashionably Queer: Mae West’s Performing Sexuality
- Fashion in India: Coercion or a Flag for Freedom?
- Bodies, Masks and Biopolitics: Clothing as “Second Skin” and Skin as “First Clothing” in “The Tiger’s Bride”
- Augmented Bodies: Functional and Rhetorical Uses of Augmented Reality in Fashion
- Clothing, Art, Literature and Popular Culture
- The Language of Clothing and the Law
- The Law of Dress in Lord of the Flies
- All Aboard the Louis Vuitton Train!
- Research
- Post-Mabo White Settler Fables and the Negotiation of Native Title Legislation in Andrew McGahan’s The White Earth (2004)
- Ian Mc Ewan’s The Children Act: Minors’ Rights and Family Justice Perspectives in Italy and the UK
- Desire for Justice and Desire as Justice: Theatre and Drama in Greenaway’s The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover
- Book Reviews
- Ian Ward ed: Literature and Human Rights: The Law, the Language and the Limitations of Human Rights Discourse
- Mary Laing, Katy Pilcher, and Nicola Smith: Queer Sex Work
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Focus
- Focus: Law, Fashion and Identities
- Theory: Dressing and Law
- Fashion as an Institutional System
- Clothing, Law and the Institution of the Subject’s Internal Normativity
- Fashion & Performance
- Playing it Fashionably Queer: Mae West’s Performing Sexuality
- Fashion in India: Coercion or a Flag for Freedom?
- Bodies, Masks and Biopolitics: Clothing as “Second Skin” and Skin as “First Clothing” in “The Tiger’s Bride”
- Augmented Bodies: Functional and Rhetorical Uses of Augmented Reality in Fashion
- Clothing, Art, Literature and Popular Culture
- The Language of Clothing and the Law
- The Law of Dress in Lord of the Flies
- All Aboard the Louis Vuitton Train!
- Research
- Post-Mabo White Settler Fables and the Negotiation of Native Title Legislation in Andrew McGahan’s The White Earth (2004)
- Ian Mc Ewan’s The Children Act: Minors’ Rights and Family Justice Perspectives in Italy and the UK
- Desire for Justice and Desire as Justice: Theatre and Drama in Greenaway’s The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover
- Book Reviews
- Ian Ward ed: Literature and Human Rights: The Law, the Language and the Limitations of Human Rights Discourse
- Mary Laing, Katy Pilcher, and Nicola Smith: Queer Sex Work
