The Theory, Culture & Society Book Series continues to be published from the TCS Centre with more than 120 titles published. The series includes volumes by many of the leading figures in the field such as: Jean Baudrillard, Zygmunt Bauman, Ulrich Beck, Pierre Bourdieu, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Norman Denzin, Norbert Elias, Scott Lash, Michel Maffesoli, Roland Robertson, Nigel Thrift, Bryan Turner, John Urry and Michel Wieviorka. The series covers a range of key issues in social and cultural theory such as global modernities, automobilties, space, culture, performance, love and eroticism.
Consumer Culture and Postmodernism Second Edition, Mike Featherstone
‘It is great to see the re-publication of the classic Consumer Culture and Postmodernism. The extensive new material is erudite, informative and important, particularly locating consumer culture in the context of global climate change and postmodernism within a framing that seriously displaces the 'west' from centre-stage' - John Urry, Lancaster University
The first edition of this contemporary classic can claim to have put 'consumer culture' on the map, certainly in relation to postmodernism. This expanded new edition includes:
- A fully revised preface that explores the developments in consumer culture since the first edition
- A major new chapter on 'Modernity and the Cultural Question'
- An update on postmodernism and the development of contemporary theory after postmodernism
- An account of multiple and alternative modernities
- The challenges of consumer culture in Japan and China
The result is a book that shakes the boundaries of debate, from one of the foremost writers on culture and postmodernism of the present day.
TCS Books Web Extra
- Read the full contents here.
- Read the Preface.
- Preface to Japanese translation.
- Articles on Consumer Culture in TCS.
- Other books on the topic.
Jean Baudrillard, The Consumer Society
Christine Buci-Glucksmann Baroque Reason
Pasi Falk & Colin Campbell (eds) The Shopping Experience
Philip Corrigan, The Dressed Society (read on TCS Webs)
John Urry The Tourist Gaze 2nd Ed
Elizabeth Wilson The Contradictions of Culture
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Other Books by the Author
Undoing Culture: Globalization, Postmodernism and Identity. Sage, 1995.
Postmodernism, Sage Publications, 1988.
Global Culture, Sage Publications, 1990.
Georg Simmel, Sage Publications, 1991.
The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory, (edited with M Hepworth & B S Turner), London: Sage, 1991.
Cultural Theory and Cultural Change, Sage Publications, 1992.
Global Modernities (edited with S Lash and R Robertson). Sage Publications, 1995.
Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment. (Edited with Roger Burrows) London: Sage, 1996.
Simmel on Culture (edited with D Frisby), Sage Publications, 1997.
Spaces of Culture: City, Nation, World (with S Lash), Sage Publications, 1999.
Love and Eroticism, Sage Publications, 1999.
Body Modification, Sage Publications, 2000.
Recognition and Difference, (edited with Scott Lash), Sage Publications, 2002.
Automobilities, (edited with N. Thrift and J. Urry), Sage Publications, 2005. Back to top
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