Contemporary culture, today′s capitalism - our global information
society - is ever expanding, is ever more extensive. And yet we seem
to be experiencing a parallel phenomenon which can only be
characterised as intensive. This thought provoking, innovative book is
dedicated to the study of such intensive culture. Whilst extensive
culture is a culture of the same: a culture of fixed equivalence;
intensive culture is a culture of difference, of in-equivalence - the
singular. Intensities generate what we encounter. They are virtuals or
possibilities, always in process and always in movement. We thus live
in a culture that is both extensive and intensive. Indeed the more
globally stretched and extensive social relations become the more they
simultaneously seem to take on this intensity. Ours is a relational
world where each intensity ? whether human, technological or
biological ? provides a distinct, specific window onto the whole. Lash
tracks the emergence and pervasion of this intensive culture in
society, religion, philosophy, language, communications, politics and
the neo-liberal economy itself. In so doing he redefines the work of
Leibniz, Benjamin, Simmel, and Durkheim and inititates the reader into
the ontological structures of our contemporary social relations. In
the pursuit of intensive culture the reader is taken on an excursion
from Karl Marx′s Capital to the ′information theology′ in the
science fiction of Philip K. Dick. Diverse, engaging and rich in
detail the resulting book will be of interest to all those studying
social and cultural theory, sociology, media and communication and
cultural studies
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ISBN
9781446243183
Publisert
2015
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Vendor
Sage Publications Ltd (UK)
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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