Crisis in the global mediasphere
Subtitle: desire, displeasure and cultural transformation
By: Jeff Lewis
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780230247420
Description: This book is an account of contemporary culture and a world in crisis. It examines the ways in which crisis conditions and a crisis consciousness have emerged through the confluence of human desire and human fear.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Imagining the end : crisis culture and the pleasure economy; title: Grand fraud : new capitalism, financial crisis and the economy of pleasure; title: Reckless desire : love, sexuality and infinite bliss; title: Global inequalities : changing world conditions; title: The shadow and the fawn : sustainable nature and collapsing ecologies; title: Fear and trembling : the vicissitudes of global terror; title: Conclusion : visions of the beginning.