Consumer Culture and PostmodernismSAGE Publications, 2007 M08 10 - 203 pages 'It is great to see the re-publication of the classic Consumer Culture and Postmodernism. The extensive new material is erudite, informative and important, particularly locating consumer culture in the context of global climate change and postmodernism within a framing that seriously displaces the 'west' from centre-stage' - John Urry, Lancaster University The first edition of this contemporary classic can claim to have put 'consumer culture' on the map, certainly in relation to postmodernism. This expanded new edition includes: - A fully revised preface that explores the developments in consumer culture since the first edition - A major new chapter on 'Modernity and the Cultural Question' - An update on postmodernism and the development of contemporary theory after postmodernism - An account of multiple and alternative modernities - The challenges of consumer culture in Japan and China The result is a book that shakes the boundaries of debate, from one of the foremost writers on culture and postmodernism of the present day. |
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Page 39
... counterculture ( see Hebdige , 1983 ; Huyssen , 1981 ; Martin , 1981 ) . There is an important sense in which the artists ' own self - understanding of their project in producing postmodern works / antiworks of art only becomes ...
... counterculture ( see Hebdige , 1983 ; Huyssen , 1981 ; Martin , 1981 ) . There is an important sense in which the artists ' own self - understanding of their project in producing postmodern works / antiworks of art only becomes ...
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... countercultures such as the bohemias of the mid- nineteenth century . While the term ' cultural sphere ' , which includes science , law , religion as well as art , may direct us away from the interdependencies it has with the rest of ...
... countercultures such as the bohemias of the mid- nineteenth century . While the term ' cultural sphere ' , which includes science , law , religion as well as art , may direct us away from the interdependencies it has with the rest of ...
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... counterculture and were regarded by city politicians , speculators and developers as a different avant- garde , as those who beat the trail to large - scale low - rent rundown areas ripe for redevelopment through gentrification . This ...
... counterculture and were regarded by city politicians , speculators and developers as a different avant- garde , as those who beat the trail to large - scale low - rent rundown areas ripe for redevelopment through gentrification . This ...
Contents
Definitions and Interpretations | 1 |
Theories of Consumer Culture | 13 |
Towards a Sociology of Postmodern Culture | 28 |
Copyright | |
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