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Body Image/Body without ImageFeatherstone, Mike

Theory Culture Society, May 2006; vol. 23: pp. 233-236

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ModernityVenn, Couze, Featherstone, Mike


Whilst presenting a number of features that have been put forward to characterize modernity as a way of life and a social system, this entry suggests a dissident genealogy that reveals a hidden history of continuities and alternatives. Itthereby problematizes the norms about periodization and the assumptions about the elaboration of a logos that underlie the concept of the modern. This approach to modernity as a complex of processes, institutions, subjectivities, and technologies challenges the more familiar history of linear temporalities and progressive transformations. The fruitfulness of seeing modernity, as much as otherhistorical periods, as hybrid assemblages in a state of flux is that it draws attention to the heterogeneity and processual nature of cultures and feeds into the possibility of the critique of the present.

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Cosmopolis: An IntroductionFeatherstone, Mike

Theory Culture Society, Apr 2002; vol. 19: pp. 1-16

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Love and Eroticism: An Introduction

Featherstone, Mike

Theory Culture Society, Aug 1998; vol. 15: pp. 1-18

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The Heroic Life and Everyday LifeFeatherstone, Mike

Theory Culture Society, Feb 1992; vol. 9: pp. 159-182

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Lifestyle and Consumer CultureFeatherstone, Mike


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Consumer Culture: an IntroductionFeatherstone, Mike

Theory Culture Society, Jan 1983; vol. 1: pp. 4-9

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The Body in Consumer CultureFeatherstone, Mike

Theory Culture Society, Sep 1982; vol. 1: pp. 18-33

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The Complexities of the GlobalUrry, John

Theory Culture Society, Oct 2005; vol. 22: pp. 235-254

Complexity theory' seems to provide some metaphors, concepts and theories essential for examining the intractable disorderliness of the contemporary world. Relations across that world are complex, rich and non-linear, involving multiple negative and, more significantly, positive feedback loops. This article shows how globalization should be conceptualized as a series of adapting and co-evolvingglobal systems, each characterized by unpredictability, irreversibility and co-evolution. Such systems lack finalized equilibrium' or order'; and the many pools of order heighten overall disorder. They do not exhibit and sustain unchanging structural stability. Complexity elaborates how there is order and disorder within these various global systems. The global order is a complex world, unpredictable and irreversible, disorderly but not anarchic.

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Consuming the Planet to ExcessUrry, John

Theory Culture Society, Mar 2010; vol. 27: pp. 191-212

This article examines some major changes relating to the contemporary conditionsof life upon Earth. It deals especially with emergent contradictions that stem

from shifts within capitalism in the rich North over the course of the last century or so. These shifts involve moving from low-carbon to high-carbon economies/societies, from societies of discipline to societies of control, and more recent


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ly from specialized and differentiated zones of consumption to mobile, de-differentiated consumptions of excess. Societies become centres of conspicuous, wasteful consumption. The implications of such forms of excess' consumption are examined for clues as to the nature and characteristics of various futures. Special attention is paid to the interdependent system effects of climate change, the peaking of oil and exceptional growth of urban populations. It is argued that the 20th century has left a bleak legacy for the new century, with a very limited ran

ge of possible future scenarios which are briefly described.

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Consuming the Planet to ExcessUrry, John

Theory Culture Society, Mar 2010; vol. 27: pp. 191-212

This article examines some major changes relating to the contemporary conditions

of life upon Earth. It deals especially with emergent contradictions that stemfrom shifts within capitalism in the rich North over the course of the last century or so. These shifts involve moving from low-carbon to high-carbon economies/societies, from societies of discipline to societies of control, and more recently from specialized and differentiated zones of consumption to mobile, de-differentiated consumptions of excess. Societies become centres of conspicuous, wasteful consumption. The implications of such forms of excess' consumption are examined for clues as to the nature and characteristics of various futures. Special attention is paid to the interdependent system effects of climate change, the peaking of oil and exceptional growth of urban populations. It is argued that the 20th century has left a bleak legacy for the new century, with a very limited range of possible future scenarios which are briefly described.

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ComplexityUrry, John


The term complexity' has recently sprung into the physical and social sciences,humanities and semi-popular writings. Complexity' practices are constituted assomething of a self-organizing global network that is spreading complexity'notions around the globe. There is a new structure of feeling' that complexityapproaches both signify and enhance. Such an emergent structure of feeling involves a greater sense of contingent openness to people, corporations and societies, of the unpredictability of outcomes in time-space, of a charity towards objects and nature, of the diverse and non-linear changes in relationships, households and persons, and of the sheer increase in the hyper-complexity of products,technologies and socialities.

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The Complexity TurnUrry, John



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The Complexities of the GlobalUrry, John


Complexity theory' seems to provide some metaphors, concepts and theories essential for examining the intractable disorderliness of the contemporary world. Relations across that world are complex, rich and non-linear, involving multiple negative and, more significantly, positive feedback loops. This article shows how globalization should be conceptualized as a series of adapting and co-evolvingglobal systems, each characterized by unpredictability, irreversibility and co-evolution. Such systems lack finalized equilibrium' or order'; and the many pools of order heighten overall disorder. They do not exhibit and sustain unchanging structural stability. Complexity elaborates how there is order and disorde

r within these various global systems. The global order is a complex world, unpredictable and irreversible, disorderly but not anarchic.

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The Tourist Gaze and the `Environment'Urry, John

Theory Culture Society, Aug 1992; vol. 9: pp. 1-26

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Cultural Change and Contemporary Holiday-MakingUrry, John


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Advertising and Ideology: An Interpretive FrameworkWernick, Andrew


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Life (Vitalism)Lash, Scott


This entry is about the concept of vitalism. The currency of vitalism has reemerged in the context of the changes in the sciences, with the rise of ideas of u


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ncertainty and complexity, and the rise of the global information society. Thisis because the notion of life has always favoured an idea of becoming over oneof being, of movement over stasis, of action over structure, of flow and flux.The global information order seems to be characterized by flow'. There are three important generations of modern vitalists. There is a generation of 1840-45 including Nietzsche and the sociologist Tarde; the generation of 1860 including the philosopher Bergson and the sociologist Simmel; and the generation of 1925-33

including Deleuze, Foucault and Negri. Vitalist or neo-vitalist themes are particularly useful in the analysis of life itself, but thinkers such as Donna Haraway and Katharine Hayles put things in reverse. They understand not the media interms of life, but life in terms of media. Thus a mediatic principle or algorithmic principle also structures life. If classical vitalism conceives of life as flow and in opposition to the structures that would contain and stop it, thenneo-vitalism would seem to have its roots in something like a media or information heuristic. Thus there is talk today that information is alive'.

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ExperienceLash, Scott


For Kant, experience is epistemological, whereas ontological experience (Gadamer) is in the first instance poetic and Romantic (Schiller, Goethe). In contradistinction to Kantian Erfahrung, it is most often called Erlebni{beta}. We notefurther that Erfahrung is cognitive experience while Erlebnis is also aestheticexperience. Dilthey and Husserl understand experience pertaining to knowledge through Erlebnis. In epistemological or classificatory knowledge the parts addup to the whole. Ontological knowledge instead is holistic in which the whole is

present in each of the parts. In ontological knowledge we can know things themselves. Ontological experience is particularly important for global knowledge.This is because knowing another culture is not reducible to a culture's qualities or predicates. Culture as a way or form of life is a thingitself. A third type of experience is informational experience. This collapses the epistemological into the ontological and is also increasingly present today. This sort of experience of non-linear information theory can account for the experience of societies, of individual humans, of digital media, of neuronal networks, of phenotypes, urban forms, of cellular organisms, or of inorganic matter.

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Technological Forms of LifeLash, Scott


This article attempts to gain purchase on the information society via the notionof `technological forms of life'. It first addresses the idea of `forms of life'. Forms of life are a mode of conceiving of culture that arose at the turn of the 20th century in conjunction with phenomenology. Previously, in early modernity, culture was conceived very much on a representational model. The rest of theessay explores the possibility that a new paradigm of culture, i.e. technologica

l forms of life is emerging at the turn of the 21st century. Technological formsof life are understood as `culture-at-a-distance'. They are the flattening, stretch-out, speed-up and lift-out of forms of life. They are forms of life become


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non-linear. They involve the exteriorization of inferiority and reflexivity.

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Reflexive Modernization: The Aesthetic DimensionLash, Scott


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Revisiting Bodies and PleasuresButler, Judith

Theory Culture Society, Apr 1999; vol. 16: pp. 11-20

Foucault proposes at the end of the first volume of The History of Sexuality toshift the focus of sexual studies from sex-desire to bodies and pleasures. Thisarticle seeks to establish what he means by this shift, how he proposes it be made, and what the consequences are for thinking about sexuality together with `sex'. Foucault's shift involves a historiographical claim about the superability of the recent past, and can be read as an effort to relegate the concerns about sexual difference and kinship to the past, and to establish a contemporary fieldfor sexuality that involves bodies without history, pleasures without sex. The article suggests a way around this questionable historiographical assumption andmarks a different departure for a Foucauldian study of sexuality. It also seeksto highlight some of the contemporary tensions between feminist and lesbian andgay studies, especially queer studies, in light of this reading of Foucault.

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