| Description |
1 online resource (volumes, 250 pages) |
| Contents |
Late Capitalism, Fordism, Post-Fordism -- Postmodernism and Late Capitalism -- Class and Consensus, Ideology and Technology -- Putting 'IT' to Work: Post-Fordism, Information Technology and the Eclipse of Production -- Making 'IT': The Soul of a New Machine -- Faking 'IT': True Stories -- Playing with 'IT': Microserfs -- Impotence and Omnipotence: The Cybernetic Discourse of Capitalism -- Cybernetics, Systems Theory and the End of Ideology -- Imaginary Resolutions: William Gibson's Cyberspace Trilogy -- Artificial Intelligence and Class Consciousness: Blade Runner -- Capital, Class, Cosmopolitanism -- Fordism, Post-Fordism and the Production of World Space -- National Allegory and the Romance of Uneven Development: The Names -- Blindness and Insight in the World System: Until the End of the World -- Conclusion: Questioning Fordism and Post-Fordism |
| Summary |
In the tradition of Mike Davis and Fredric Jameson, Nick Heffernan engages in a series of meditations on capital, class and technology in contemporary America. He turns to the stories we generate and tell ourselves - via fiction, film journalism, theory - to see how change is registered. By investigating a variety of texts, he observes how structural change affects the way people organise their lives economically, socially and culturally. Case studies include Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, William Gibson's cyberspace trilogy, Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, and Wim Wenders's Until the End of the World. Using the links between narrative cultural forms and the process of historical understanding, he brings together debates that have so far been conducted largely within the separate domains of political economy, social theory and cultural criticism to provide a compelling analysis of contemporary cultural change. By relocating postmodernism in the context of changing modes of capitalism, Heffernan puts the question of class and class agency back at the centre of the critical agenda |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-243) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed January 18, 2021) |
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Social change -- United States
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Capitalism -- United States
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Postmodernism -- Social aspects -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Democracy.
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Capitalism
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Postmodernism -- Social aspects
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Social change
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Social conditions
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Sozialer Wandel
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Kapitalismus
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Postmoderne
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Soziale Situation
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Social change -- United States.
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Capitalism -- United States.
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Postmodernism -- Social aspects -- United States.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020
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United States
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USA
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0585426201 |
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9780585426204 |
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9781849645188 |
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1849645183 |
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