Collins, Jim - Architectures of Excess: Cultural Life in the Information Age

New York / London, Routledge, (1995). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, ix, 236 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: After the End of Postmodernism: The Pragmatics of Excess: Of Cyberpunk Cowboys & Digital Opera Queens; Popular Archivization & the Dispersal of Taste-Making; Home, Home on the Array: Cultural Geography & Ethnographic Mapping or Chacun à son theme park; Taking Time: English Music & Afro-Baroque Blues; Real Estate is Not Reality: Figurative Mapping & Speculative Subjectivity; Appropriating Like Crazy: From Pop Art to Meta Pop: Mickey is Taken to the Museum, Cindy Goes to the Movies; We Won't Play Other to Your Culture; When Legend Becomes Hyperconscious, Print the... Genre Films/ Genre Theories: Narrative 'Action' in the Age of Total Recall; And the Only Words That Came to Mind Were 'The New Sincerity'; Retro-Modernism: Taste Cartographies in the Nineties; Authority, Partiality, Pedagogy: Visse d'arte, vissi de carpeting: Beyond Holistic Value Theory; Two Autonomous Film Cultures: Authorizing Authorship; Toward a Pedagogy of Partiality.

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