Mapping the Futures Local Cultures, Global Change |
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| Editor:
| Curtis, Barry
Putnam, Tim
Tickner, Lisa
Bird, John |
| Series title: | FUTURES: New Perspectives for Cultural Analysis Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-415-07018-8 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1993 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $56.95 |
Book Description:
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This collection offers radical reformulations of cultural theory in response to political, economic and technological change. In particular it focuses on the intellectual project of speculating on the future.There are now new experiences of space and time; new tensions between globalism and regionalism, socialism and consumerism, reality and spectacle; new instabilities of value, meaning and identity - a dialectic between past and future. How are we to understand these?Mapping the...
More DescriptionThis collection offers radical reformulations of cultural theory in response to political, economic and technological change. In particular it focuses on the intellectual project of speculating on the future.There are now new experiences of space and time; new tensions between globalism and regionalism, socialism and consumerism, reality and spectacle; new instabilities of value, meaning and identity - a dialectic between past and future. How are we to understand these?Mapping the Futures is the first of a series which brings together cultural theorists from different disciplines to assess the implications of economic, political and social change for intellectual inquiry and cultural practice.