Occasional Papers
Old Age as Lifestyle in an Active Society
Stephen Katz examines contemporary, commercially produced images of aging and associated seniors-oriented marketing strategies, suggesting that, as such images circulate and acquire representational validity, they obscure our view of the material realities of living, aging, and dying. He argues that a radical “seniors culture” might go beyond the disciplining bounds of consumer practices and ideals—not to defy aging, but to defy the popular emphasis on agelessness, positivity and activity, and to cultivate an alternative politics of representation, “living in time, rather than against it.”
Authors
Robert Alter
Kwame A. Appiah
T. J. Clark
J.M. Coetzee
Arthur Danto
Mike Davis
Natalie Zemon Davis
Wendy Doniger
Gerald Early
Christina Gillis, ed.
Anthony Grafton
Seamus Heaney
Eva Hoffman
Michael Ignatieff
Stephen Katz
Bert Keizer
Ivan Klima
Maya Lin
Alan Liu
Margaret Lock
Kenzaburô Ôe
Robert Pinsky
Michael Pollan
Sebastião Salgado
Peter Sellars
Maurice Sendak
Kathleen Woodward