Living Make-Belief: Thriving in a Dream Society
This book shows how multiple developments have caused the world to move from “an information society” to a “dream society”. Ongoing social and technological forces are pushing us from a world of words, rationality, and truth into a world of images, performance, and make-belief. Rather than deny or r...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham
Springer Nature Switzerland
2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
| Series: | Anticipation Science
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Waves of change
- 2. The Korean wave
- 3. A hidden wave?
- 4. Changing comunication modes change societies
- 5. The post-industrial interregnum
- 6. Visual images vs. the printed word
- 7. Eroding literal truth
- 8. Dreaming in the Anthropocene
- 9. Designing governance
- 10. The predicament of governance design
- 11. Precursor political dreamweavers
- 12. Donald Trump as a dream society paragon
- 13. Towards quantum governance of a dream society
- 14. Beyond words and images