Consumer Culture and PostmodernismSAGE, 2007 M07 11 - 232 pages 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:
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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... not only the question'what is the postmodern?' but why andhow we are concerned with this particularquestion. We need,therefore, to inquire into theconditions ofpossibility for the positivereception of theconcept of the postmodern and ...
... not only the question'what is the postmodern?' but why andhow we are concerned with this particularquestion. We need,therefore, to inquire into theconditions ofpossibility for the positivereception of theconcept of the postmodern and ...
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... notonly accumulating new goods,butalso new 'bads' (Beck, 1993, 1996).Notonly global warming, butalso BSE (madcow disease), genetically modifiedfood, new viruses and superbugs.Yet despite the intermittent mediascares overthe generation ...
... notonly accumulating new goods,butalso new 'bads' (Beck, 1993, 1996).Notonly global warming, butalso BSE (madcow disease), genetically modifiedfood, new viruses and superbugs.Yet despite the intermittent mediascares overthe generation ...
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... notonly havea greater capacityto increase theircapital accumulation, buttoretain a levelof invisibility in national ... not only problematizes many of our assumptions about urban development, the 'slumification of the world' provides ...
... notonly havea greater capacityto increase theircapital accumulation, buttoretain a levelof invisibility in national ... not only problematizes many of our assumptions about urban development, the 'slumification of the world' provides ...
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... not only is evident in Japan and other parts of Asia, but also in France, Germany, Italy and other Europeancountries (Garon and MacLachlan,2006). There is,then,a greater awareness todayof thecostsof consumer culture, of the ...
... not only is evident in Japan and other parts of Asia, but also in France, Germany, Italy and other Europeancountries (Garon and MacLachlan,2006). There is,then,a greater awareness todayof thecostsof consumer culture, of the ...
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... Not only through the continuing expansion ofWestern knowledge institutions such as universities, publishing housesand media conglomerates to set up branches and franchises intherestof the world, tocaterfor the growing global market for ...
... Not only through the continuing expansion ofWestern knowledge institutions such as universities, publishing housesand media conglomerates to set up branches and franchises intherestof the world, tocaterfor the growing global market for ...
Contents
Towardsa Sociology ofPostmodern Culture 4 Cultural Change and Social Practice | |
The Aestheticization of Everyday Life | |
Lifestyle and Consumer Culture 7 City Culturesand Postmodern Lifestyles 8 Consumer Culture and Global Disorder 9 Common Culture or Uncommo... | |
The Globalization of Diversity | |
Index | |
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