Nigel Thrift: Knowing Capitalism (2005)
Filed under book | Tags: · actor-network theory, anthropology, capitalism, complexity theory, computing, cultural economy, economics, economy, genetic algorithms, geography, information technology, rfid, social theory
Capitalism is well known for producing a form of existence where `everything solid melts into air’. But what happens when capitalism develops theories about itself? Are we moving into a condition in which capitalism can be said to possess a brain?
These questions are pursued in this sparkling and thought-provoking book. Thrift looks at what he calls “the cultural circuit of capitalism,” the mechanism for generating new theories of capitalism. The book traces the rise of this circuit back to the 1960s when a series of institutions locked together to interrogate capitalism, to the present day, when these institutions are moving out to the Pacific basin and beyond. What have these theories produced? How have they been implicated in the speculative bubbles that characterized the late twentieth century? What part have they played in developing our understanding of human relations?
Building on an inter-disciplinary approach which embraces the core social sciences, Thrift outlines an exciting new theory for understanding capitalism. His book is of interest to readers in Geography, Social Theory, Antrhopology and Cultural Economics.
Publisher SAGE Publications, 2005
Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
Theory, culture & society
ISBN 141290059X, 9781412900591
Length 256 pages
Aether. The Journal of Media Geography 1-5 (2007-2010)
Filed under journal | Tags: · cinema, geography, internet, media, television
Aether offers a forum that examines the geography of media, including cinema, television, the Internet, music, art, advertising, newspapers and magazines, video and animation. It is our goal to provide a space for contributions to current issues surrounding these media, beginning with constructions of space & place, cultural landscapes, society, and identity.
Locative Media
Aether 5a, March 2010
Edited by Tristan Thielmann
more info
The Geography of Journalism
Aether 4, March 2009
Edited by Mike Gasher
more info
Aether 3, June 2008
more info
Imagining Geography Through Interactive Visual Media
Aether 2, April 2008
Edited by Leigh Schwartz and Paul C Adams
more info
Aether 1, Nov 2007
more info
Editors: James Craine, Jason Dittmer, Chris Lukinbeal, Giorgio Hadi Curti
Publisher: The Center for Geographic Studies, The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, California State University, Northridge
Brett Christophers: Envisioning Media Power: On Capital and Geographies of Television (2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · geography, mass media, political economy, television
Envisioning Media Power develops an original geographical perspective on the nature and exercise of power in the international television economy. It uses theories of political economy as the basis for a comparative empirical examination of the UK and New Zealand television markets, while closely considering these markets’ respective relationships with the US market and its globally-influential media corporations. In fleshing out this geographical perspective, the book critically addresses the power to produce, reproduce, and extract profit from territorialized media markets. To understand such powers, the book examines processes of creation and dissemination of industry knowledge, structures of industry governance, and the locational characteristics of television’s operational economy.
Through its rigorous and creative combination of conceptual insights with empirical substance, Envisioning Media Power both illuminates the fabric of television’s international space economy, and ultimately offers a unique theoretic argument – suggesting that power, knowledge and geography are inseparable not only from one another, but from the process of accumulation of media capital.
G – Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
Publisher Lexington Books, 2009
ISBN 0739123440, 9780739123447
Length 467 pages