Capital, Class & Technology in Contemporary American Culture
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Capital, Class & Technology in Contemporary American Culture

Projecting Post-Fordism

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Capital, Class & Technology in Contemporary American Culture

Projecting Post-Fordism

About this book

In the tradition of Mike Davis and Fredric Jameson, Nick Heffernan engages in a series of meditations on capital, class and technology in contemporary America. He turns to the stories we generate and tell ourselves - via fiction, film journalism, theory - to see how change is registered. By investigating a variety of texts, he observes how structural change affects the way people organise their lives economically, socially and culturally. Case studies include Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, William Gibson's cyberspace trilogy, Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, and Wim Wenders's Until the End of the World. Using the links between narrative cultural forms and the process of historical understanding, he brings together debates that have so far been conducted largely within the separate domains of political economy, social theory and cultural criticism to provide a compelling analysis of contemporary cultural change. By relocating postmodernism in the context of changing modes of capitalism, Heffernan puts the question of class and class agency back at the centre of the critical agenda.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. Part 1. Late Capitalism, Fordism, Post- Fordism
  4. 1. Postmodernism and Late Capitalism
  5. 2. Class and Consensus, Ideology and Technology
  6. Part 2. Putting 'IT' to Work: : Post- Fordism, Information Technology and the Eclipse of Production
  7. 3. Making 'IT': The Soul of a New Machine
  8. 4. Faking 'IT': True Stories
  9. 5. Playing With 'IT': Microserfs
  10. Part 3. Impotence and Omnipotence: The Cybernetic Discourse of Capitalism
  11. 6. Cybernetics, Systems Theory and the End of Ideology
  12. 7. Imaginary Resolutions: William Gibson's Cyberspace Trilogy
  13. 8. Artificial Intelligence and Class Consciousness: Blade Runner
  14. Part 4. Capital, Class, Cosmopolitanism
  15. 9. Fordism, Post-Fordism and the Production of World Space
  16. 10. National Allegory and the Romance of Underdevelopment: The Names
  17. 11. Blindness and Insight in the World System: Until the End of the World
  18. Conclusion Questioning Fordism and Post-Fordism
  19. Notes
  20. Index