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Knowing capitalism / Nigel Thrift.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)Publisher: London : SAGE Publications, 2005Description: 256 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 141290059X
  • 9781412900591
  • 1412900581
  • 9781412900584
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.122 22
LOC classification:
  • HB501 .T517 2005
Contents:
1. Adventures 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 -- 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.
Summary: This title looks at what the author calls 'the cultural circuit of capitalism', the mechanism for generating new theories of capitalism. The book traces the rise of this circuit from the 1960s to the present day.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Adventures 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 -- 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.

This title looks at what the author calls 'the cultural circuit of capitalism', the mechanism for generating new theories of capitalism. The book traces the rise of this circuit from the 1960s to the present day.

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