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Blog Theory offers a critical theory of contemporary media. Furthering her account of communicative capitalism, Jodi Dean explores the ways new media practices like blogging and texting capture their users in intensive networks of enjoyment, production, and...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-18
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For over two decades, many liberals in Israel have attempted, with wide international support, to implement the two-state solution: Israel and Palestine, partitioned on the basis of the Green Line - that is, the line drawn by the 1949 Armistice Agreements that defined...
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Polity
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2013-04-18
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It is difficult to imagine a world without the car, and yet that is exactly what Dennis and Urry set out to do in this provocative new book. They argue that the days of the car are numbered: powerful forces around the world are undermining the car system and will usher...
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Polity
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2013-04-18
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Social relations are crucial for understanding diverse economic actions and a network perspective is central to that explanation. Simple exchanges involving money, labor, and commodities combine into complexly connected systems. Economic networks span many levels of ...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-18
Collection :
Economy and Society
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-69%
62,20€
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It is difficult to imagine a world without the car, and yet that is exactly what Dennis and Urry set out to do in this provocative new book. They argue that the days of the car are numbered: powerful forces around the world are undermining the car system and will usher...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-18
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-9%
23,00€
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Subcultural phenomena continue to draw attention from many areas of contemporary society, including the news media, the marketing and fashion industries, concerned parents, religious, and other citizen groups, as well as academia. Research into these phenomena has...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-17
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The passage from ‘solid’ to ‘liquid’ modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered. Social forms and institutions no longer have enough time to solidify...
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Polity
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2013-04-17
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What are the logics of pricing, and why do some pricing schemes defy standard economic expectations?What explains the different labor market outcomes of people who receive the same training from the same place and who have similar grades? Why do national governments...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-17
Collection :
Cultural Sociology
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This is a book for those looking for different answers to some of today's most fundamental questions. What is a consumer society? Does being a consumer make us less authentic or more materialistic? How and why do we shop? How should we understand the economy? Is our...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-17
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Nowhere has Western public distrust towards Islam been as strong as in the Netherlands. This book provides a thorough discussion of Dutch multicultural society seen through the lens of literature. The literary work of four important contemporary writers – Kader Abdolah,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-04-17
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Feminism is not dead. This is not a postfeminist era.Feminism is still vibrant, despite declarations that it is over.Feminism is a success, although many gender inequalities remain.Feminism is taking powerful new forms, which makes it unrecognisable to some. In The...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-17
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-9%
23,00€
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With books such as Discourse Networks and Gramophone, Film, Typewriter and the collection Literature, Media, Information Systems, Friedrich Kittler has established himself as one of the world's most influential media theorists. He is also one of the most controversial...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-16
Collection :
Theory and Media
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Interfaces are back, or perhaps they never left. The familiar Socratic conceit from the Phaedrus, of communication as the process of writing directly on the soul of the other, has returned to center stage in today's discussions of culture and media. Indeed Western...
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Polity
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2013-04-16
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Roger Silverstone's compelling new book places the global media at the heart of the moral future of civilisation. It argues that the media (the press, broadcasting, the Internet and increasingly peer-to-peer technologies and networks) have a profound significance for...
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Polity
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2013-04-16
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20,40€
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Beast. Monster. Savage. Psycho. The glowering menace of Mike Tyson has spooked us for almost two decades. And still we remain fascinated. Why? Ellis Cashmore's answer is disturbing: white society has created Tyson as vengeance for the loss of privilege produced by civil...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-16
Collection :
Celebrities
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Is Bob Marley the only third world superstar? How did he achieve this unique status? In this captivating new study of one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, Jason Toynbee sheds new light on issues such as Marley's contribution as a musician and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-16
Collection :
Celebrities
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-7%
21,60€
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Slavoj Zizek reaches the parts of the media that other theorists cannot. With sources ranging from Thomas Aquinas to Quentin Tarantino and Desperate Housewives to Dostoyevsky, Zizek mixes high theory with low culture more engagingly than any other thinker alive today....
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-16
Collection :
Theory and Media
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-67%
50,90€
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With the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consumers. In this new consumer society, individuals become simultaneously the promoters of commodities and the commodities they promote. They are, at one and the same time,...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-16
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We are all modern today. But modernity today is not what it used to be. Over the past few decades, modernity has been radically changed by globalization, individualization, new inequalities, and fundamentalism. A novel way of analysing contemporary societies is needed....
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-16
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-7%
22,60€
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The music industry is going through a period of immense changebrought about in part by the digital revolution. What is the roleof music in the age of computers and the internet? How has themusic industry been transformed by the economic and technologicalupheavals of...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-16
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