Hypercapitalism

New Media, Language, and Social Perceptions of Value

Phil Graham (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

202 Seiten

2005
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-6217-2 (ISBN)

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Every day trillions of dollars circulate the globe in a digital data space and new forms of property and ownership emerge. Massive corporate entities with a global reach are formed and disappear with breathtaking speed, making and breaking personal fortunes the size of which defy imagination. Fictitious commodities abound. The genomes of entire nations have become corporately owned. Relationships have become the overt basis of economic wealth and political power. Hypercapitalism explores the problems of understanding this emergent form of global political economic organization by focusing on the internal relations between language, new media networks, and social perceptions of value. Taking an historical approach informed by Marx, Phil Graham draws upon writings in political economy, media studies, sociolinguistics, anthropology, and critical social science to understand the development, roots, and trajectory of the global system in which every possible aspect of human existence, including imagined futures, has become a commodity form.

Reihe/Serie	Digital Formations ; 15
Reihe/Serie	Digital Formations ; 15
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Briefe / Präsentation / Rhetorik
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	0-8204-6217-9 / 0820462179
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-6217-2 / 9780820462172
Zustand	Neuware