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Intensive Culture - Social Theory, Religion & Contemporary Capitalism (Hardcover)
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Intensive Culture - Social Theory, Religion & Contemporary Capitalism (Hardcover)
Series: Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
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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. Lash tracks the emergence
and pervasion of this intensive culture in society, religion,
philosophy, language, communications, politics and the neo-liberal
economy itself. In so doing he redefines the work of Leibniz,
Benjamin, Simmel, and Durkheim and inititates the reader into the
ontological structures of our contemporary social relations. In the
pursuit of intensive culture the reader is taken on an excursion
from Karl Marx's Capital to the 'information theology' in the
science fiction of Philip K. Dick. Diverse, engaging and rich in
detail the resulting book will be of interest to all those studying
social and cultural theory, sociology, media and communication and
cultural studies
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