New Media, Cultural Studies, and Critical Theory after Postmodernism Automodernity from Zizek to Laclau

This book argues that we have moved into a new cultural period, automodernity, which represents a social, psychological, and technological reaction to postmodernity. In fact, by showing how individual autonomy is now being generated through technological and cultural automation, Samuels posits that...

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Main Author: Samuels, Robert
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan US 2009, 2009
Series:Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This book argues that we have moved into a new cultural period, automodernity, which represents a social, psychological, and technological reaction to postmodernity. In fact, by showing how individual autonomy is now being generated through technological and cultural automation, Samuels posits that we must rethink modernity and postmodernity
Physical Description:XI, 256 p online resource
ISBN:9780230104181