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Social and temporal geographies of the near future
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Cyberpunk has been widely acknowledged as a form of popular fiction, which has done much to establish the potential of information technology in the popular imagination as discussed by the authors. Commonly these extrapolations are predicated on the shared diegesis of a dark future, that is a setting of urban decay and oppressive corporate capital.About:
This article is published in Futures.The article was published on 1998-12-01. It has received 5 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Diegesis & Social change.read more
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Working Weeks, Rave Weekends: Identity Fragmentation and the Emergence of New Communities
Abstract: Popular music is one of the most ubiquitous forms of contemporary culture. This paper looks at the phenomenon known as rave or dance culture in Britain. It examines the nature of the consumer experience at a dance club through the use of a two stage methodology. Based on observations and the collection of phenomenological data, the findings suggest that the experience is linked to a series of behaviours, which are related to fragmentation and identity. These include narcissistic identity, the emergence of new communities, the need for escape, engagement and prolonged hedonism. The paper examines these concepts in relation to postmodern consumption. In particular, an evaluation of postmodern theory and its focus on fragmentation and the project of the self is offered, by arguing for a return to "community".
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Age is just a number: 'rave' culture and the cognitively young 'thirty something'
Christina Goulding,Avi Shankar +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the emergence of dance/rave, and the process of commodification of a subculture movement and suggest that youth-related activities are migrating up the age scale and draw on the results of a phenomenological study to support this.
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Becoming Plant and Posthumanism in Jeff Noon’s Pollen (1995)
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine Jeff Noon's cyberpunk novel Pollen and argue for its innovative treatment of spatial and species identities, including the speculative treatment of becoming plant and the location of the action in the North of England.
Working Weeks, Rave Weekends: Identity Fragmentation and the Emergence of New
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the nature of the consumer experience at a dance club through the use of a two-stage methodology, based on observations and the collection of phenomenological data, and suggest that the experience is linked to a series of behaviours, which are related to fragmentation and identity.
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The habitat of crime – Random Acts of Senseless Violence from the criminological perspective
TL;DR: The authors analyzed Womack's Random Acts of Senseless Violence from the perspective of criminological research focusing on the correlation between criminality and the environment, i.e. the particular areas where either criminals reside, or where the crimes are committed.
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The ecstasy of communication
TL;DR: Baudrillard's The Ecstasy of Communication as mentioned in this paper is an anti-manifesto that confronted and dispensed with such influences as Marshall McLuhan, Guy Debord, and Georges Bataille.
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The Diamond Age
TL;DR: The Diamond Age as discussed by the authors is a major novel from one of the most visionary writers of our time, with a protagonist who breaks the rigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful Neo-Victorians, by making an illicit copy of a state-of-the-art interactive device called a young lady's illustrated primer.
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The Difference Engine
Bruce Sterling,William Gibson +1 more
TL;DR: Ger Gerard as discussed by the authors describes a room in Grand's Hotel, Piccadilly, London, January 15, 1855, where a warm draft stirs the loose white hair at her neck, bringing scents of coal smoke, jasmine, opium.