Beschreibung:
'This is an ambitious, original, and complex treatment of key aspects of contemporary capitalism. It makes a major contribution because it profoundly destabilizes the scholarship on globalization, the so-called new economy, information technology, distinct contemporary business cultures and practices' - Saskia Sassen, author of Globalization and its Discontents
Adventures of Capitalism The Cultural Circuit of CapitalismPART ONE: THE CULTURAL CIRCUIT OF CAPITALISMThe Rise of Soft CapitalismThe Place of ComplexityVirtual Capitalism The Globalization of Reflexive Business KnowledgeCultures on the Brink - with Kris Olds Re-Engineering the Soul of Capitalism on a Global ScalePART TWO: THE NEW ECONOMY¿It¿s the Romance, Not the Finance, that Makes the Business Worth Pursuing¿ Disclosing a New Market CulturePerforming Cultures in the New EconomyThe Automatic Production of Space - with Shaun FrenchCloser to the Machine? Intelligent Environments, New Forms of Possession and the Rise of the SupertoyElectric Animals New Models of Everyday Life?Remembering the Technological Unconscious by Foregrounding Knowledges of Postition