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- Title: Temporality and consumption in post-modern societies: ontologies, paradoxes
- Author : Umberto Pagano & Alessia Mangiacasale
- Release Date : January 22, 2018
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 209 KB
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The individual floats in an almost alarming universe: every "sense", every "sign", owes its right to exist to an equivalence to the "value": the value of acceleration. This value, in some ways related to the gradual demolition of space-time barriers, characterizes the history of capitalism in the late modernity. We run toward a hypertrophy of the area of economics and consumption, enough to necessitate a reshaping of the ratio between social temporality andconsumption dynamics. In this essay, through the isomorphic use of Physics' categories for a sociological discourse, we use the faster-than-light speed concept to explain the new social mechanisms of the contemporary consumer's (dis)satisfaction.