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    The Experience Society

    How Consumer Capitalism Reinvented Itself

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    Author(s)
    Miles, Steven
    Collection
    Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
    Number
    104207
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    Airbnb, gaming, escape rooms, major sporting events: contemporary capitalism no longer demands we merely consume things, but that we buy experiences. This book is concerned with the social, cultural and personal implications of this shift. The technologically-driven world we live in is no closer to securing the utopian ideal of a leisure society. Instead, the pursuit of leisure is often an attempt to escape our everyday existence. Exploring examples including sport, architecture, travel and social media, Steven Miles investigates how consumer culture has colonised 'experiences', revealing the ideological and psycho-social tensions at the heart of the 'experience society'. The first critical analysis of the experience economy by a UK sociologist sheds light on capitalism's ever more sophisticated infiltration of the everyday.
    URI
    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/43937
    Keywords
    Business & Economics; Consumer Behavior
    ISBN
    9781786805607
    Publisher
    Pluto Press
    Publisher website
    https://www.plutobooks.com/
    Publication date and place
    2020
    Grantor
    • Knowledge Unlatched
    Imprint
    Pluto Press
    Classification
    Behavioural economics
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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