Architectures of Excess: Cultural Life in the Information Age

ISBN-13: 9780415907064 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 256 str.

Jim Collins

Opis

Given the changes in consumer and industrial electronics, the critical interest in new technology and its effect on our lives is substantial. This text aims to bring the way the reader thinks about technology up to date. Instead of thinking about technology as only overwhelming, the study aims to show how that very excess is being mastered and is transforming pop culture itself.

Spis treści

Introduction After the End of Early Postmodernism, The Pragmatics of Excess, Home, Home on the Array, Cultural Geography and Ethnographic Mapping,or chacun à son theme park, Taking Time, English Music and Afro-Baroque Blues, Heal Estate is Not Reality, Figurative Mapping and Speculative Subjectivity 2 Appropriating Like Crazy, From Pop Art to Meta-Pop, Mickey is Taken to the Museum, Cindy Goes to the Movies, We Won't Play Other to Your Culture 3 When the Legend Becomes Hyperconscious, Print the..., 4 Retro-Modernism Taste Cartographies in the Nineties 5 Authority, Partiality, Pedagogy

O autorze

Jim Collins is Associate Professor in the Department of Communications and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame.