LEADER 03008nam 22005894a 450 001 9910779903103321 005 20231212202919.0 010 $a1-84964-518-3 010 $a0-585-42620-1 035 $a(CKB)111056486516252 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH22933805 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000117592 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11915484 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000117592 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10043905 035 $a(PQKB)10201720 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3386089 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr2001172 035 $a(OCoLC)50799292 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3386089 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486516252 100 $a20000530d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCapital, class, and technology in contemporary American culture$b[electronic resource] $eprojecting post-Fordism /$fNick Heffernan 210 $aLondon ; Sterling, Va. $cPluto Press$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7453-1104-0 311 $a0-7453-1105-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 230-243) and index. 330 $bIn 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. 517 1 $aCapital, class & technology in contemporary American culture 606 $aSocial change$zUnited States 606 $aCapitalism$zUnited States 606 $aPostmodernism$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$y1980-2020 615 0$aSocial change 615 0$aCapitalism 615 0$aPostmodernism$xSocial aspects 676 $a306/.0973 700 $aHeffernan$b Nick$01518782 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779903103321 996 $aCapital, class, and technology in contemporary American culture$93756533 997 $aUNINA