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The First Edition of this contemporary classic can claim to have put ‘consumer culture’ on the map, certainly in relation to postmodernism. Updated throughout, this expanded new edition includes a fully revised preface that explores the developments in consumer culture since the First Edition. Among the most noteworthy areas discussed are the effect of global warming on consumption, the rise of the new rich, changes in the North/South divide and the new diversity of consumer culture. The result is a book that shakes the boundaries of debate, from one of the foremost writers on culture and postmodernism of the present day.
The Globalization of Diversity
The Globalization of Diversity
Each sees what is in his own heart.
We live now amidst the ruins of a civilization, but most of these ruins are in our minds.
In focusing attention on the postmodern one of the central concerns has been to raise the questions ‘Why this question?’ and ‘Why and how has postmodernism become a central issue in cultural life today?’ If postmodernism is from the point of view of modernism a sign and symptom of cultural disorder, then modernism, with its increasingly popular associated term modernity is from the perspective of postmodernism a constant which highlights images of order, unity and coherence. Both terms feed ...
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