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Intensive Culture

Scott Lash

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Description: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 studiesWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Intensive Culture. To get started finding Intensive Culture, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 280

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Release: 2010

ISBN: 1282795023

Description: 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 studiesWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Intensive Culture. To get started finding Intensive Culture, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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