Nightclub

Bouncers, Risk, and the Spectacle of Consumption

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
Cover of the book Nightclub by George S. Rigakos, MQUP
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Author: George S. Rigakos ISBN: 9780773578012
Publisher: MQUP Publication: March 18, 2008
Imprint: MQUP Language: English
Author: George S. Rigakos
ISBN: 9780773578012
Publisher: MQUP
Publication: March 18, 2008
Imprint: MQUP
Language: English
People go to nightclubs to see and be seen - to view others as aesthetic objects and to present themselves as objects of desire. Rigakos argues that this activity fuses surveillance and aesthetic consumption - it fetishizes bodies and amplifies social capital, producing violence and crises fuelled by alcohol. At closing time, patrons flow out of the insular haze of the nightclub and onto city streets, moving from private spectacle to public nuisance. Bouncers are thus both policing agents in the nighttime economy and the gatekeepers of an urban risk market - a site of circumscribed transgression and consumption that begins at the nightclub door.
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People go to nightclubs to see and be seen - to view others as aesthetic objects and to present themselves as objects of desire. Rigakos argues that this activity fuses surveillance and aesthetic consumption - it fetishizes bodies and amplifies social capital, producing violence and crises fuelled by alcohol. At closing time, patrons flow out of the insular haze of the nightclub and onto city streets, moving from private spectacle to public nuisance. Bouncers are thus both policing agents in the nighttime economy and the gatekeepers of an urban risk market - a site of circumscribed transgression and consumption that begins at the nightclub door.

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