Temporality and consumption in post-modern societies: ontologies, paradoxes
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
| Author: | Umberto Pagano, Alessia Mangiacasale | ISBN: | 9788827803585 |
| Publisher: | Youcanprint | Publication: | January 3, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Umberto Pagano, Alessia Mangiacasale |
| ISBN: | 9788827803585 |
| Publisher: | Youcanprint |
| Publication: | January 3, 2018 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
The individual floats in an almost alarming universe: every "sense", every "sign", owes its right to exist to an equivalence to the "value": the value of acceleration. This value, in some ways related to the gradual demolition of space-time barriers, characterizes the history of capitalism in the late modernity. We run toward a hypertrophy of the area of economics and consumption, enough to necessitate a reshaping of the ratio between social temporality and
consumption dynamics.
In this essay, through the isomorphic use of Physics' categories for a sociological discourse, we use the faster-than-light speed concept to explain the new social mechanisms of the contemporary consumer's (dis)satisfaction.
The individual floats in an almost alarming universe: every "sense", every "sign", owes its right to exist to an equivalence to the "value": the value of acceleration. This value, in some ways related to the gradual demolition of space-time barriers, characterizes the history of capitalism in the late modernity. We run toward a hypertrophy of the area of economics and consumption, enough to necessitate a reshaping of the ratio between social temporality and
consumption dynamics.
In this essay, through the isomorphic use of Physics' categories for a sociological discourse, we use the faster-than-light speed concept to explain the new social mechanisms of the contemporary consumer's (dis)satisfaction.
