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9780745311050

Capital, Class & Technology In Contemporary American Culture Projecting Post-Fordism

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    9780745311050

  • ISBN10:

    0745311059

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-12-20
  • Publisher: UCP

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Summary

Looks at the intersection of class, capital and technology in contemporary America. Includes a variety of textual analyses, including readings of science fiction and film.

Author Biography

Nick Heffernan teaches American Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University College Northampton.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(12)
Part 1 Late Capitalism, Fordism, Post-Fordism
Postmodernism and Late Capitalism
13(16)
Class and Consensus, Ideology and Technology
29(10)
Part 2 Putting `IT' to Work: Post-Fordism, Information Technology and the Eclipse of Production
Making `IT': The Soul of a New Machine
39(33)
Faking `IT': True Stories
72(16)
Playing with `IT': Microserfs
88(17)
Part 3 Impotence and Omnipotence: The Cybernetic Discourse of Capitalism
Cybernetics, Systems Theory and the End of Ideology
105(14)
Imaginary Resolutions: William Gibson's Cyberspace Trilogy
119(29)
Artificial Intelligence and Class Consciousness: Blade Runner
148(17)
Part 4 Capital, Class, Cosmopolitanism
Fordism, Post-Fordism and the Production of World Space
165(14)
National Allegory and the Romance of Uneven Development: The Names
179(26)
Blindness and Insight in the World System: Until the End of the World
205(7)
Conclusion: Questioning Fordism and Post-Fordism 212(4)
Notes 216(14)
Bibliography 230(15)
Index 245

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