'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
'Nigel Thrift offers us the sort of cultural analysis of global capitalism that has long been needed - one that emphasizes the innovative energy of global capitalism. The book avoids stale denouncements and offers instead a view of capitalism as a form of practice' - Karin Knorr Cetina, Professor of Sociology, University of Konstanz, Germany
Capitalism is well known for producing a form of existence where `everything solid melts into air'. But what happens when capitalism develops theories about itself? Are we moving into a condition in which capitalism can be said to possess a brain?
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Adventures of Capitalism
The Cultural Circuit of Capitalism
PART ONE: THE CULTURAL CIRCUIT OF CAPITALISM
The Rise of Soft Capitalism
The Place of Complexity
Virtual Capitalism
The Globalization of Reflexive Business Knowledge
Cultures on the Brink - with Kris Olds
Re-Engineering the Soul of Capitalism on a Global Scale
PART TWO: THE NEW ECONOMY
It s the Romance, Not the Finance, that Makes the Business Worth Pursuing
Disclosing a New Market Culture
Performing Cultures in the New Economy
The Automatic Production of Space - with Shaun French
Closer to the Machine? Intelligent Environments, New Forms of Possession and the Rise of the Supertoy
Electric Animals
New Models of Everyday Life?
Remembering the Technological Unconscious by Foregrounding Knowledges of Postition
