Capital, Class & Technology in Contemporary American Culture

Projecting Post-Fordism

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

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In the tradition of Mike Davis and Fredric Jameson, Nick Heffernan engages in a series of meditations on capital, class and technology in contemporary America. He turns to the stories we generate and tell ourselves - via fiction, film journalism, theory - to see how change is registered. By investigating a variety of texts, he observes how structural change affects the way people organise their lives economically, socially and culturally. Case studies include Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, William Gibson's cyberspace trilogy, Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, and Wim Wenders's Until the End of the World.Using the links between narrative cultural forms and the process of historical understanding, he brings together debates that have so far been conducted largely within the separate domains of political economy, social theory and cultural criticism to provide a compelling analysis of contemporary cultural change. By relocating postmodernism in the context of changing modes of capitalism, Heffernan puts the question of class and class agency back at the centre of the critical agenda.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2000-12-20
Mått150 x 230 x 15 mm
Vikt453 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor260
FörlagPluto Press
ISBN9780745311043

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IntroductionPart 1. Late Capitalism, Fordism, Post-Fordism1. Postmodernism and Late Capitalism 2. Class and Consensus, Ideology and TechnologyPart 2. Putting 'IT' to Work: Post-Fordism, Information Technology and the Eclipse of Production3. Making 'IT': The Soul of a New Machine 4. Faking 'IT': True Stories 5. Playing with 'IT': Microserfs Part 3. Impotence and Omnipotence: The Cybernetic Discourse of Capitalism6. Cybernetics, Systems Theory and the End of Ideology 7. Imaginary Resolutions: William Gibson's Cyberspace Trilogy 8. Artificial Intelligence and Class Consciousness: Blade Runner Part 4. Capital, Class, Cosmopolitanism9. Fordism, Post-Fordism and the Production of World Space 10. National Allegory and the Romance of Uneven Development: The Names 11. Blindness and Insight in the Global System: Until the End of the World Conclusion: Questioning Fordism and Post-Fordism Notes Bibliography

'Draws on an impressive breadth of texts, ranging from the usual suspects of post-modern social, cultural, and literary theory to an intriguing selection of films and novels, including some recent cyberpunk science fiction. The result is an eclectic analysis of the often ambiguous and anxious position of the professional middle class in the midst of a period of historic transformation, cybernation, and globalisation'