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The Experience Society : How Consumer Capitalism Reinvented Itself

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Pluto Press, 2020Description: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:
  • 9781786805607
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.3 23
LOC classification:
  • HB801
Online resources: Summary: Airbnb, gaming, escape rooms, major sporting events: contemporary capitalism no longer demands we merely consume things, but that we buy experiences. This book is concerned with the social, cultural and personal implications of this shift.The technologically-driven world we live in is no closer to securing the utopian ideal of a leisure society. Instead, the pursuit of leisure is often an attempt to escape our everyday existence. Exploring examples including sport, architecture, travel and social media, Steven Miles investigates how consumer culture has colonised 'experiences', revealing the ideological and psycho-social tensions at the heart of the 'experience society'.The first critical analysis of the experience economy by a UK sociologist sheds light on capitalism's ever more sophisticated infiltration of the everydayPPN: PPN: 1778470572Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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