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Hypermodern Times

Author : Gilles Lipovetsky
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hypermodern Times written by Gilles Lipovetsky and published by Polity. This book was released on 2005-04-22 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gilles Lipovetsky, French social theorist, argues that we've entered a new phase of 'hypermodernity', characterized by hyper-consumption and the hypermodern individual. Hyperconsumption is a consumption which absorbs and integrates more and more spheres of social life and which encourages individuals to consume for their own personal pleasure rather than to enhance their social status. Hypermodernity is a society characterized by movement, fluidity and flexibility, distanced more than ever from the great structuring principles of modernity. And the hypermodern individual, while oriented towards pleasure and hedonism, is also filled with the kind of tension and anxiety that comes from living in a world which has been stripped of tradition and which faces an uncertain future.

Liberalism in Modern Times

Author : Ernest Gellner
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633864852
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Liberalism in Modern Times written by Ernest Gellner and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating study pays tribute to the life and work of the Brazilian essayist, thinker and diplomat José G. Merquior, who died prematurely in 1991. Part I concentrates on Merquiorian thought itself and examines Merquior's own incisive review of the rebirth of the liberal idea. Part II ranges more widely: here, such distinguished contributors as John Hall, Ernest Gellner and Norberto Bobbio develop some of Merquior's favourite themes – liberalism as it relates to social cohesion, political stability, morality, republicanism and democracy, and the relativeness and scepticism that characterize postmodern thinking. The book's application to two regions of the world – to Merquior's own Latin America and to Central and Eastern Europe – is direct and obvious.

Modern Technology and Communication

Author : Prof. Dr. Sedat CERECİ
Publisher : Hiperlink eğit.ilet.yay.san.tic.ve ltd.sti.
ISBN 13 : 6257280842
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Modern Technology and Communication written by Prof. Dr. Sedat CERECİ and published by Hiperlink eğit.ilet.yay.san.tic.ve ltd.sti.. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modern Times in Southeast Asia, 1920s-1970s

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004372709
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Modern Times in Southeast Asia, 1920s-1970s written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how Southeast Asians conceived of ‘being modern’ between the 1920s and 1970s. It investigates continuities and changes between colonial rule and independence, and in everyday spheres of life like sex, religion, art, film, literature, and urban space.

The Terminal Self

Author : Simon Gottschalk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317022351
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Terminal Self written by Simon Gottschalk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living at the dawn of a digital twenty-first century, people living in Western societies spend an increasing amount of time interacting with a terminal and interacting with others at the terminal. Because the self emerges out of interaction with others (humans and non-humans), this increasingly pervasive and mandatory interaction with terminals prompts a ‘terminal self’—a nexus of social and psychological orientations that are adjusted to the terminal logic. In order to trace the terminal self’s profile, the book examines how five unique ‘default settings’ of the terminal incite particular adjustments in users that transform their perceptions of reality, their experiences of self, and their relations with others. Combining traditional interactionist theory, Goffman’s dramaturgy, and the French hypermodern approach, using examples from everyday life and popular culture, the book examines these adjustments, their manifestations, consequences, and resonance with broader trends of a hypermodern society organized by the ‘digital apparatus.’ Suggesting that these adjustments infantilize users, the author proposes strategies to confront three interrelated risks faced by the terminal self and society. These risks pertain to users’ subjectivity and need for recognition, to their declining abilities in face-to-face interactions, and to their dwindling abilities to retain control over terminal technologies. An accessibly written examination of the transformation of the self in the digital age, The Terminal Self will appeal to scholars of sociology, social psychology, and cultural studies with interests in digital cultures, new technologies, social interaction, and conceptions of identity.

Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents

Author : Kieran Keohane
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315447193
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents written by Kieran Keohane and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses three of the most prevalent illnesses of late modernity: anxiety, depression and Alzheimer’s disease, in terms of their relation to cultural pathologies of the social body. Usually these conditions are interpreted clinically in terms of individualized symptoms and responded to discretely, as though for the most part unrelated to each other. However, these diseases also have a social and cultural profile that transcends their particular symptomologies and etiologies. Anxiety, depression and Alzheimer’s are diseases related to disorders of the collective esprit de corps of contemporary society. Multidisciplinary in approach, the book addresses questions of how these conditions are manifest at both the individual and collective levels in relation to hegemonic biomedical and psychologistic understandings. Rejecting such reductive diagnoses, the authors argue that anxiety, depression and Alzheimer’s disease, as well as other contemporary epidemics, are to be analysed in the light of individual and collective experiences of profound and radical changes in our civilization. A diagnosis of our times, Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents will appeal to a broad range of scholars with interests in health and illness, the sociology of medicine and contemporary life.

Fashion, Dress and Post-postmodernism

Author : José Blanco F.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350115177
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Fashion, Dress and Post-postmodernism written by José Blanco F. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have argued that postmodernism is dead and that we are entering into a new era that some have labelled altermodernism, digimodernism, performatism, and post-postmodernism. This book expands on the nascent scholarship of post-postmodernism to highlight how dress, fashion, and appearance are reflections of this new age. The volume starts with a discussion of fashion, subjectivity, and time and an analysis of temporality, technology, and fashion in post-postmodern times. Later chapters analyse the work of design houses and mass producers such as Vetements, Gucci, and Uniqlo whose products align with post-postmodern aesthetics, hyperconsumption, and hypermodern branding. The book looks at diverse geographic and identity markers by discussing post-postmodernism and the religio-politico-cultural questions in South Asian Muslim fashion, image and identity presentation in queer social networking apps, and by exploring fashion designer Tom Ford's output as a movie director. Two chapters discuss the post-postmodern fashion exhibition with analyses of recent exhibitions and an in-depth look at the work of exhibition maker Judith Clark. The final chapter is written by members of The Rational Dress Society, a counter-fashion collective that makes JUMPSUIT, an experimental garment to replace all clothes. Fashion, Dress, and Post-postmodernism is a companion to research on relationships between post-postmodernism, fashion, and dress, and the go-to resource for researchers and students interested in these areas.

Hypermodernity and Visuality

Author : Peter R. Sedgwick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786604914
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Hypermodernity and Visuality written by Peter R. Sedgwick and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book engages with the question of making sense of seeing in today’s technologically dominated world. It does so by exploring the notion of the ‘hypermodern’, a term which is used to capture the drive in contemporary culture to achieve ever greater speed and efficiency. The volume draws principally on the thought of Paul Virilio and Friedrich Nietzsche. The text’s key argument is that destabilizing tendencies, which become increasingly evident in hypermodern culture, spring from its having a dual character. This duality turns on hypermodernity’s uncomfortable, unstable and possibly unsustainable relation to its own past. The volume engages with this dual character in a unique way. Its discussions are prefaced by poems and photographic images which together frame and permeate the text’s arguments and analyses. Part One offers linked engagements with Virilio’s articulation of the hypermodernized cultural-visual environment, Nietzsche’s accounts of history, power and archaic visuality, and briefer discussions of various other writers. Part Two presents a creative elaboration of these engagements through a combination of poetry, image and aphorism. Through this combination the digital image, a quintessentially hypermodern form of representation, is turned against itself to allow for reflection on the ethics and politics of seeing today. The volume concludes with an open-ended dialogue on visual culture, the archaic and the hypermodern.

Chinese Modern

Author : Peter G. Rowe
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3035626332
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Modern written by Peter G. Rowe and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rowe’s third volume on the architecture of the Far East deals with the development of modern architecture and planning in China, with a focus on this development within the broader framework of nation-building. Episodes and periods interrogated in the book range from the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912 to the proclamation of Xi Jinping’s ‘China Dream’ 100 years later. Episodes will be foregrounded by commentary about the general states of the nation and particularly by urban planning undertakings. Providing a wide-ranging survey of Chinese modern architecture that has a historic aspect to it, the book introduces the reader to a plethora of originative and influential buildings, momentous urban schemes as well as the architects and planners behind them.

The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: Volume 2

Author : Christopher Breward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108851479
Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: Volume 2 written by Christopher Breward and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II surveys the history of fashion from the nineteenth-century to the present day. Covering the period beginning with mass industry and ending with calls for sustainability, this volume challenges the meaning of modernity and modernism from a global perspective and reflects on important scholarship that has changed our understanding of the relationship between fashion and colonialism. Empires shifted and new powers rose, with fashion marking and contending with this change. The volume concludes with a critical view of fashion and globalisation, and explores the deep connections between the fashion industry, the global economy, and the politics of production and wearing in the contemporary world.

Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction

Author : Alan N. Shapiro
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839472423
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction written by Alan N. Shapiro and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do digital media technologies affect society and our lives? Through the cultural theory hypotheses of hyper-modernism, hyperreality, and posthumanism, Alan N. Shapiro investigates the social impact of Virtual/Augmented Reality, AI, social media platforms, robots, and the Brain-Computer Interface. His examination of concepts of Jean Baudrillard and Katherine Hayles, as well as films such as Blade Runner 2049, Ghost in the Shell, Ex Machina, and the TV series Black Mirror, suggests that the boundary between science fiction narratives and the »real world« has become indistinct. Science-fictional thinking should be advanced as a principal mode of knowledge for grasping the world and digitalization.

Narrating War in Peace

Author : Katherine O. Stafford
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137496681
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Narrating War in Peace written by Katherine O. Stafford and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through case studies of prominent cultural products, this book takes a longitudinal approach to the influence and conceptualization of the Civil War in democratic Spain. Stafford explores the stories told about the war during the transition to democracy and how these narratives have morphed in light of the polemics about historical memory.

The Architecture of Modern Culture

Author : Wolfgang Müller-Funk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110283050
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Modern Culture written by Wolfgang Müller-Funk and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These collected essays contain fundamental contributions to contemporary cultural analysis and theory as well as exemplary interpretations of film, literature and other media. Central issues of current cultural studies are addressed: cultural narratives, cultural identity, collective memory and post-colonial thinking. The oeuvre of cultural and literary critic Wolfgang Müller-Funk encompasses historic analyses such as readings of Broch, Canetti and Musil, and the heritage they passed on. Other essays move from the beginning of the 20th to the 21st century and address questions of space, time and globalization discussing, for example, Walter Benjamin and 9/11.

The Hypercontemporary Novel in Portugal

Author : Paulo de Medeiros
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book The Hypercontemporary Novel in Portugal written by Paulo de Medeiros and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of critical essays on the contemporary Portuguese novel in English, this book theorizes the concept of the 'hypercontemporary' as a way of reading the novel after its postmodern period. This inquiry into the notion of the hypercontemporary in its literary and cultural articulations analyzes a varied group of works representative of the most vibrant novels published in Portugal since 2000. The editors' introductory chapter theorizes the concept of the hypercontemporary as one way of looking at the novel after its postmodern period – especially in its relation to questions of violence, memory and performativity. These essays show how the Portuguese novel has evolved in the past 25 years, and how, in their diversity, most of these novels exhibit several common traits, including new topics and writing strategies – sometimes developing further entropic lines characteristic of many Postmodern narratives – and themes of violence, rapid transformation, and the many threats to a contemporary world that seems mass-produced due to greater technological advances. Readings also discuss the use of innovative graphic forms available from current print technologies and global networks. The Hypercontemporary Novel in Portugal provides a necessary understanding of the current literary landscape of Portugal and, in the process, the aesthetics of hyperrealism or post-postmodernism.

Refiguring Identity in Corporate Times

Author : David Vella
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1837643938
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Refiguring Identity in Corporate Times written by David Vella and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refiguring Identity in Corporate Times is aimed as a response to the narcissistic life-strategies promoted by the marketplace. It introduces an identity model that ensures a more inclusive, ethical, and authentic way of living ones own life-script. We live in a culture that requires us to create our own self-interpretation. Claiming to assist us in this mission are self-professed experts and the public media that offer life-strategies for adoption, to which it is all too easy to conform to in hyper-capitalized and consumerist societies. Among the most popular are fashion, entrepreneurship, travel, fitness, and self-spirituality, which are designed by corporate companies for instant appeal and feelgood results, expressing the consumerist religion of hedonistic narcissism and status. The possibility of an alternative identity for todays society that is based on the experience of conscience, sees our self-realization as intimately related to care for others and the advancement of political and civic institutions. To aspire for this identity model is to move from the distorted values of commercial life-strategies to five virtues. The virtues enable us to attune to what is singularly foreign in any experience, signalling ways how our worldview can become more inclusive, ethical, and insightful in its comprehension of existence. This key reading in Identity Studies provides insight into the psychology and behaviour endorsed by consumer culture; charts out a new understanding of virtue ethics; and promotes life-choices that steers consumers away from conformity in its capacity to stimulate the creation of a personal and authentic vision of life that involves others and societal institutions.

Making Time for Digital Lives

Author : Anne Kaun
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786612984
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Making Time for Digital Lives written by Anne Kaun and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is said that the ontology of data resists slowness and also that the digital revolution promised a levelling of the playing field. Both theories are examined in this timely collection of chapters looking at time in the digital world. Since data has assumed such a paramount place in the modern neoliberal world, contemporary concepts of time have undergone radical transformation. By critically assessing the emerging initiatives of slowing down in the digital age, this book investigates the role of the digital in ultimately reinforcing neo-liberal temporalities. It shows that both "speed-up" and "slow down" imperatives often function as a form of biopolitical social control necessary to contemporary global capitalism. Problematic paradoxes emerge where a successful slow down and digital detox ultimately are only successful if the individual returns to the world as a more productive, labouring neoliberal subject. Is there another way? The chapters in this collection, broken up into three parts, ask that question.

Communication Excellence

Author : Ralph Tench
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319488600
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Communication Excellence written by Ralph Tench and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the implications of 10 years of data from more than 21,000 communication professionals across Europe, combined with case studies and interviews with senior communication directors from top European companies and organisations, this book provides an insight into how to build, develop and lead excellent communication. It presents a culmination of research and best practice models, covering strategic communication, the impact on reputation, crisis, mediatisation, organisational culture, new digital, social and mobile media as well as the development of professionalisation. Providing clear guidance on the difference between normal and excellent communications departments, the book shows readers how communication can effectively influence and support the organisation and positively fit within the business strategy of today’s global and changing markets. The study behind this book, the European Communication Monitor, is known as the most comprehensive provider of reliable data in the communication field worldwide.