We Have Never Been Postmodern: Theory at the Speed of Light - Couverture rigide

Redhead, Steve

 
9780748643448: We Have Never Been Postmodern: Theory at the Speed of Light
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ISBN 10 : 0748643443 ISBN 13 : 9780748643448
Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Is it possible that various disciplines, theorists and cultural commentators have been hurtling down a blind alley in the last thirty years, searching for the holy grail of the postmodern? What if, after all, we have never have been postmodern? Or what if we are, instead, now living 'after postmodernity'? As global culture rushes off the cliff of catastrophe with its neo-liberal, neo-conservative ideologies mangled in the process, this book provides theory at the speed of light designed to capture the fast flickering images of the real, gone before you can blink in today's accelerated culture. Key Features * Sets out a variety of reasons why we should move away from seeing the recent era as 'postmodern' and our culture as 'postmodernist' through a series of analyses of contemporary culture. * Highlights key theorists, such as Paul Virilio and Jean Baudrillard, who, despite the pitfalls of their work, chart a new route map out of the trajectories of the catastrophic. * Envisages a new object of knowledge for the contemporary world - mobile accelerated nonpostmodern culture (MANC). *Provides some of the building blocks and conceptual resources for a 'claustropolitan sociology' of the global future in order to better understand the catastrophic present, where claustropolis is rapidly replacing cosmopolis.

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À propos de l?auteur

Steve Redhead is a Professor of Legal Studies n the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. He has published fifteen books including The Paul Virilio Reader, The Jean Baudrillard Reader and Paul Virilio: Theorist for an Accelerated Culture, all with Edinburgh University Press.

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Éditeur
Edinburgh University Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0748643443
ISBN 13 
9780748643448
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
192
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