Knowing Capitalism / Edition 1

by Nigel Thrift

Overview

'This is an ambitious, original, and complex treatment of key aspects of contemporary capitalism. It makes a major contribution because it profoundly destabilizes the scholarship on globalization, the so-called new economy, information technology, distinct contemporary business cultures and practices' - Saskia Sassen, author of Globalization and its Discontents

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412900591
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	02/16/2005
Series:	Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Nigel Thrift is a Visiting Professor in Oxford and Tsinghua Universities. He was previously Executive Director of Schwarzman Scholars, Vice-Chancellor at the University of Warwick and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at Oxford University.

Table of Contents

Adventures of Capitalism
The Cultural Circuit of Capitalism
PART ONE: THE CULTURAL CIRCUIT OF CAPITALISM
The Rise of Soft Capitalism
The Place of Complexity
Virtual Capitalism
The Globalization of Reflexive Business Knowledge
Cultures on the Brink - with Kris Olds
Re-Engineering the Soul of Capitalism on a Global Scale
PART TWO: THE NEW ECONOMY
'It's the Romance, Not the Finance, that Makes the Business Worth Pursuing'
Disclosing a New Market Culture
Performing Cultures in the New Economy
The Automatic Production of Space - with Shaun French
Closer to the Machine? Intelligent Environments, New Forms of Possession and the Rise of the Supertoy
Electric Animals
New Models of Everyday Life?
Remembering the Technological Unconscious by Foregrounding Knowledges of Postition