Consumption in an age of information
By: edited by Sande Cohen and R.L. Rutsky
Contributors: Cohen, Sande; Rutsky, R. L
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects; Information society -- Economic aspects; Information technology -- Economic aspects; Consumer behavior
Description: "We live in an age when consumption and consuming have come to define us. Consumption, now a global phenomenon, is so dominant it allows little room for alternatives. At the same time, information and digitization have become all-pervasive in our media culture. As ever greater aspects of the world have come to be seen as 'data', information has increasingly become the very currency of consumption."

"Consumption in an Age of Information maps this new terrain. Bringing together some of the world's leading theorists and critics, the essays range across high theory and popular culture - from informational flows to science fiction simulations, from pop-cultural consumption to capitalism as religion, from the consumption of time to the role of 'speed' in contemporary culture."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction : consumption in an age of information / Sande Cohen and R. L. Rutsky; title: The murder of the sign / Jean Baudrillard; title: Future advertising : Dick's Ubik and the digital ad / Mark Poster; title: Spending time / Thomas Lutz; title: Information wants to be consumed / R. L. Rutsky; title: Consumer discipline and the work of audiencing / Sean Cubitt; title: Sado-monetarism or Saint Fond-Saint Ford / James Wiltgen; title: Closing the net : "capitalism as religion" / Samuel Weber; title: Disparity, information, and consumption : hello to an agonistics of the future / Sande Cohen