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The Experience Society: Consumer Capitalism Rebooted

The Experience Society: Consumer Capitalism Rebooted

Hardcover

Business GeneralEconomicsInvesting & Finance

ISBN10: 0745338704
ISBN13: 9780745338705
Publisher: Pluto Pr
Published: Jan 20 2021
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Airbnb, gaming, escape rooms, major sporting events: contemporary capitalism no longer demands we merely consume things, but that we buy experiences. This book is concerned with the social, cultural and personal implications of this shift. The technologically-driven world we live in is no closer to securing the utopian ideal of a leisure society. Instead, the pursuit of leisure is often an attempt to escape our everyday existence. Exploring examples including sport, architecture, travel and social media, Steven Miles investigates how consumer culture has colonised 'experiences', revealing the ideological and psycho-social tensions at the heart of the 'experience society'. This first critical analysis of the experience economy sheds light on capitalism's ever more sophisticated infiltration of the everyday.

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