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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971740103321

Autore

Thrift N. J

Titolo

Knowing capitalism / / Nigel Thrift

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE Publications, 2005

ISBN

9786610370986

9781412900591

141290059X

9781446239148

1446239144

9781280370984

128037098X

9781412933056

1412933056

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

Theory, culture & society

Disciplina

330.122

Soggetti

Capitalism

Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 - Adventures of Capitalism; Chapter 2 - The Rise of Soft Capitalism; Chapter 3 - The Place of Complexity; Chapter 4 - Virtual Capitalism: The Globalization of Reflexive Business Knowledge; Chapter 5 - Cultures on the Brink: Re-engineering the Soul of Capitalism on a Global Scale; Chapter 6 - It's the Romance, Not the Finance, that Makes the Business Worth Pursuing: Disclosing a New Market Culture; Chapter 7 - Cultures in the New Economy; Chapter 8 - The Automatic Production of space

Chapter 9 - Closer to the Machine? Intelligent Environments, New Forms of Possession and the Rise of Supertoy Chapter 10 - Electric Animals: New Models of Everyday Life?; Chapter 11 - Remembering the Technological Unconscious by Foregrounding Knowledges of Position; Bibliography; Index



Sommario/riassunto

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.