Knowing Capitalism.
Title:
Knowing Capitalism.
Author:
Thrift, Nigel.
ISBN:
9781412933056
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (223 pages)
Series:
Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 Adventures of Capitalism -- Part I The Cultural Circuit of Capitalism -- 2 The Rise of Soft Capitalism -- 3 The Place of Complexity -- 4 Virtual Capitalism: The Globalization of Reflexive Business Knowledge -- 5 Cultures on the Brink: Re-engineering the Soul of Capitalism on a Global Scale -- Part II The New Economy -- 6 'It's the Romance, Not the Finance, that Makes the Business Worth Pursuing': Disclosing a New Market Culture -- 7 Performing Cultures in the New Economy -- 8 The Automatic Production of Space -- 9 Closer to the Machine? Intelligent Environments, New Forms of Possession and the Rise of the Supertoy -- 10 Electric Animals: New Models of Everyday Life? -- 11 Remembering the Technological Unconscious by Foregrounding Knowledges of Position -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
'This is an ambitious, original, and complex treatment of key aspects of contemporary capitalism. It makes a major contribution because it profoundly destabilizes the scholarship on globalization, the so-called new economy, information technology, distinct contemporary business cultures and practices' - Saskia Sassen, author of Globalization and its Discontents.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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