03008nam 22005894a 450 991077990310332120231212202919.01-84964-518-30-585-42620-1(CKB)111056486516252(StDuBDS)AH22933805(SSID)ssj0000117592(PQKBManifestationID)11915484(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000117592(PQKBWorkID)10043905(PQKB)10201720(Au-PeEL)EBL3386089(CaPaEBR)ebr2001172(OCoLC)50799292(MiAaPQ)EBC3386089(EXLCZ)9911105648651625220000530d2000 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrCapital, class, and technology in contemporary American culture[electronic resource] projecting post-Fordism /Nick HeffernanLondon ; Sterling, Va. Pluto Press20001 online resource (256 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7453-1104-0 0-7453-1105-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-243) and index.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.Capital, class & technology in contemporary American cultureSocial changeUnited StatesCapitalismUnited StatesPostmodernismSocial aspectsUnited StatesUnited StatesSocial conditions1980-2020Social changeCapitalismPostmodernismSocial aspects306/.0973Heffernan Nick1518782MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779903103321Capital, class, and technology in contemporary American culture3756533UNINA