1st Edition

Architectures of Excess Cultural Life in the Information Age

256 Pages

by Routledge

Also available as eBook on:

Taylor & Francis eBooks
(Institutional Purchase)Opens in new tab or window

Description

First Published in 1995. Much of recent theory has characterized life in media-sophisticated societies in terms of a semiotic overload which, allegedly, has had only devastating effects on communication and subjectivity. In Architectures of Excess , Jim Collins argues that, while the rate of technological change has indeed accelerated, so has the rate of absorption. The seemingly endless... Read more

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