Consumption and the City, Modern and Postmodern
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4811255 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David B Clarke (0000-0003-3816-6674, University of Leeds, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 218-237 |
| Publication date | 1997-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2427.00070 |
| OpenAlex | W2059288854 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
Whilst consumption has frequently been associated with the postmodern city, insufficient regard has been paid to the systemic logic of consumption. It is argued here that consumption takes on an increasingly significant role in this respect. Specifically, we have been witness to a profound social transformation whereby the active repression once centred on the city as a locus of production has given way to a new mode of social integration, which accords to the logic of seduction. By tracing the development of the modern city in terms of the imposition of the law and its transgression - figured in terms of cognitive space and the 'spectral presence' of the stranger - the significance of the postmodern is theorized in terms of the systemic appropriation of an aesthetic space initially traced out by the flâneur. The ludic existence of the flâneur has thus been translated into the general condition of a society oriented around consumption. This condition implies a new form of cybernetic control, governed by the aleatory play of the code, rather than the direct surveillance characteristic of the modern city. As a consequence, urban space has itself undergone a transition, which we might begin to address in terms of a 'posturban' hyperspace
Aesthetics · Art · Commodification · Différance · Dramatization · Economics · Economy · Epistemology · Literature · Political science · Postmodernism · Social science · Sociology · Witness · French Urban and Social Studies · Law · Philosophy · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
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Glocalising” urban landscapes
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Post-industrial Trajectories of Mediterranean European Cities
It's a public, I reckon
Gender, Modern Design, and Home Consumption
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Consumption, identity and space-time
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,61 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2019 (22) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |