Counterfeit and their museums: observation of the aesthetic categories of the pirate consumption

Abstract

This paper arises from discussions about consumption and piracy,analyzing the role of counterfeit museums, and their paradoxes in the way they communicating the ambivalences of meaning e types of commercial piracy; based on Lipovetsky’s thought (2004; 2007), the articles illustrates the debate about consumption and piracy with 3 museum cases in Thailand, Italy and France.

Keywords

• consumo
• pirataria
• contrafação
• comunicação
• museus