Consumption in an Age of Information - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845200896 ISBN 13: 9781845200893

Publisher: Berg Publishers, 2005

Synopsis

We live in an age when consumption and consuming have come to define us. Consumption, now a global phenomenon, is so dominant it allows little room for alternatives. At the same time, information and digitization have become all-pervasive in our media culture . As ever greater aspects of the world have come to be seen as 'data', information has increasingly become the very currency of consumption. Consumption in an Age of Information maps this new terrain. Bringing together some of the world's leading theorists and critics, the essays range across high theory and popular culture - from informational flows to science fiction simulations, from pop-cultural consumption to capitalism as religion, from the consumption of time to the role of 'speed' in contemporary culture.

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About the Author

R. L. Rutsky teaches at San Francisco State University and is the author of High Techne: Art and Technology from the Machine Aesthetic to the Posthuman and co-editor of Strategies for Theory: From Marx to Madonna and Film Analysis: A Norton Reader. Sande Cohen teaches at the California Institute for the Arts and is the author of Historical Culture, Academia and the Luster of Capital, Passive Nihilism, History Out of Joint and co-editor of French Theory in America.

Edition details

• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845200896
• ISBN 13: 9781845200893
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Cohen Sande