Mapping the Futures: Local Cultures, Global Change

by Putnam; Tim

• ISBN13: 9780415070188
• ISBN10: 041507018X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1993-03-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This collection offers radical reformulations of cultural theory in response to political, economic and technological change. In particular it focuses on the intellectual project of speculating on the future.There are now new experiences of space and time; new tensions between globalism and regionalism, socialism and consumerism, reality and spectacle; new instabilities of value, meaning and identity - a dialectic between past and future. How are we to understand these?Mapping the Futures is the first of a series which brings together cultural theorists from different disciplines to assess the implications of economic, political and social change for intellectual inquiry and cultural practice.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. xii
Introduction	p. xiii
The Cultural Politics of Space	p. 1
From Space to Place and Back Again: Reflections on the Condition of Postmodernity	p. 3
Future Fear	p. 30
Space as an Arena of Represented Practices: an Interlocutor's Response to David Harvey's 'From Space to Place and Back Again'	p. 47
Power-Geometry and a Progressive Sense of Place	p. 59
Some Notes Towards Thinking About the Spaces of the Future	p. 70
Changing Places	p. 85
Homeless/Global: Scaling Places	p. 87
Dystopia on the Thames	p. 120
The Art of Change in Docklands	p. 136
Beyond the Modern Home: Shifting the Parameters of Residence	p. 150
Moving Times	p. 167
Global and Local Cultures	p. 169
Cities Without Maps	p. 188
A European Home?	p. 199
Shifting Values	p. 205
Towards a Cultural Politics of Consumption	p. 207
Between Earth and Air: Value, Culture and Futurity	p. 229
Postmodernity, Architecture and Critical Practice	p. 237
News from Somewhere	p. 248
Thinking Futures	p. 255
The Future of Thinking About the Future	p. 257
Communism: Should the Mighty Ideas Be Falling with the Statues?	p. 267
Training Some Thoughts on the Future	p. 270
Index	p. 280
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