Intensive culture : social theory, religion and contemporary capitalism / Scott Lash.
Tipo de material: TextoSeries Theory, culture & societyEditor: Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, 2010Descripción: vii, 247 páginas ; 24 cmTipo de contenido:- texto
- no mediado
- volumen
- 9781412945165
- 9781412945172 (pbk)
- HM621 .L37 2010
Tipo de ítem | Biblioteca actual | Signatura | Copia número | Estado | Fecha de vencimiento | Código de barras |
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Libro | BURRF: FG (PP) | HM621 .L37 2010 | 1 | 1080236585 |
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Contemporary culture, today's capitalism - our global information society - is ever expanding, is ever more extensive. And yet we seem to be experiencing a parallel phenomenon which can only be characterised as intensive. This thought provoking, innovative book is dedicated to the study of such intensive culture. Whilst extensive culture is a culture of the same: a culture of fixed equivalence; intensive culture is a culture of difference, of in-equivalence - the singular. Intensities generate what we encounter. They are virtuals or possibilities, always in process and always in movement. We thus live in a culture that is both extensive and intensive. Indeed the more globally stretched and extensive social relations become the more they simultaneously seem to take on this intensity. Ours is a relational world where each intensity - whether human, technological or biological - provides a distinct, specific window onto the whole.