Displaying 1-22 of (22) Marked Citations Body Image/Body without Image Featherstone, Mike Theory Culture Society, May

2006; vol. 23: pp. 233-236 ------------------------------------------------------------Modernity Venn, Couze, Featherstone, Mike Theory Culture Society, May 2006; vol. 23: pp. 457-465 Whilst presenting a number of features that have been put forward to characteriz e modernity as a way of life and a social system, this entry suggests a dissiden t genealogy that reveals a hidden history of continuities and alternatives. It thereby problematizes the norms about periodization and the assumptions about t he elaboration of a logos that underlie the concept of the modern. This approa ch to modernity as a complex of processes, institutions, subjectivities, and tec hnologies challenges the more familiar history of linear temporalities and prog ressive transformations. The fruitfulness of seeing modernity, as much as other historical periods, as hybrid assemblages in a state of flux is that it draws a ttention to the heterogeneity and processual nature of cultures and feeds into t he possibility of the critique of the present. ------------------------------------------------------------Cosmopolis: An Introduction Featherstone, Mike Theory Culture Society, Apr 2002; vol. 19: pp. 1-16 ------------------------------------------------------------Love and Eroticism: An Introduction Featherstone, Mike Theory Culture Society, Aug 1998; vol. 15: pp. 1-18 ------------------------------------------------------------The Heroic Life and Everyday Life Featherstone, Mike Theory Culture Society, Feb 1992; vol. 9: pp. 159-182 -------------------------------------------------------------

Lifestyle and Consumer Culture Featherstone, Mike Theory Culture Society, Feb 1987; vol. 4: pp. 55-70 ------------------------------------------------------------Consumer Culture: an Introduction Featherstone, Mike Theory Culture Society, Jan 1983; vol. 1: pp. 4-9 ------------------------------------------------------------The Body in Consumer Culture Featherstone, Mike Theory Culture Society, Sep 1982; vol. 1: pp. 18-33 ------------------------------------------------------------The Complexities of the Global Urry, John Theory Culture Society, Oct 2005; vol. 22: pp. 235-254 Complexity theory' seems to provide some metaphors, concepts and theories essent ial for examining the intractable disorderliness of the contemporary world. Re lations across that world are complex, rich and non-linear, involving multiple n egative and, more significantly, positive feedback loops. This article shows ho w globalization should be conceptualized as a series of adapting and co-evolving global systems, each characterized by unpredictability, irreversibility and co -evolution. Such systems lack finalized equilibrium' or order'; and the many p ools of order heighten overall disorder. They do not exhibit and sustain uncha nging structural stability. Complexity elaborates how there is order and disorde r within these various global systems. The global order is a complex world, unp redictable and irreversible, disorderly but not anarchic. ------------------------------------------------------------Consuming the Planet to Excess Urry, John Theory Culture Society, Mar 2010; vol. 27: pp. 191-212 This article examines some major changes relating to the contemporary conditions of life upon Earth. It deals especially with emergent contradictions that stem from shifts within capitalism in the rich North over the course of the last cent ury or so. These shifts involve moving from low-carbon to high-carbon economies/ societies, from societies of discipline to societies of control, and more recent

ly from specialized and differentiated zones of consumption to mobile, de-differ entiated consumptions of excess. Societies become centres of conspicuous, wastef ul consumption. The implications of such forms of excess' consumption are exami ned for clues as to the nature and characteristics of various futures. Special a ttention is paid to the interdependent system effects of climate change, the pea king of oil and exceptional growth of urban populations. It is argued that the 2 0th century has left a bleak legacy for the new century, with a very limited ran ge of possible future scenarios which are briefly described. ------------------------------------------------------------Consuming the Planet to Excess Urry, John Theory Culture Society, Mar 2010; vol. 27: pp. 191-212 This article examines some major changes relating to the contemporary conditions of life upon Earth. It deals especially with emergent contradictions that stem from shifts within capitalism in the rich North over the course of the last cent ury or so. These shifts involve moving from low-carbon to high-carbon economies/ societies, from societies of discipline to societies of control, and more recent ly from specialized and differentiated zones of consumption to mobile, de-differ entiated consumptions of excess. Societies become centres of conspicuous, wastef ul consumption. The implications of such forms of excess' consumption are exami ned for clues as to the nature and characteristics of various futures. Special a ttention is paid to the interdependent system effects of climate change, the pea king of oil and exceptional growth of urban populations. It is argued that the 2 0th century has left a bleak legacy for the new century, with a very limited ran ge of possible future scenarios which are briefly described. ------------------------------------------------------------Complexity Urry, John Theory Culture Society, May 2006; vol. 23: pp. 111-115 The term complexity' has recently sprung into the physical and social sciences, humanities and semi-popular writings. Complexity' practices are constituted as something of a self-organizing global network that is spreading complexity' notions around the globe. There is a new structure of feeling' that complexity approaches both signify and enhance. Such an emergent structure of feeling inv olves a greater sense of contingent openness to people, corporations and societi es, of the unpredictability of outcomes in time-space, of a charity towards obj ects and nature, of the diverse and non-linear changes in relationships, househo lds and persons, and of the sheer increase in the hyper-complexity of products, technologies and socialities. ------------------------------------------------------------The Complexity Turn Urry, John Theory Culture Society, Oct 2005; vol. 22: pp. 1-14

------------------------------------------------------------The Complexities of the Global Urry, John Theory Culture Society, Oct 2005; vol. 22: pp. 235-254 Complexity theory' seems to provide some metaphors, concepts and theories essent ial for examining the intractable disorderliness of the contemporary world. Re lations across that world are complex, rich and non-linear, involving multiple n egative and, more significantly, positive feedback loops. This article shows ho w globalization should be conceptualized as a series of adapting and co-evolving global systems, each characterized by unpredictability, irreversibility and co -evolution. Such systems lack finalized equilibrium' or order'; and the many p ools of order heighten overall disorder. They do not exhibit and sustain uncha nging structural stability. Complexity elaborates how there is order and disorde r within these various global systems. The global order is a complex world, unp redictable and irreversible, disorderly but not anarchic. ------------------------------------------------------------The Tourist Gaze and the `Environment' Urry, John Theory Culture Society, Aug 1992; vol. 9: pp. 1-26 ------------------------------------------------------------Cultural Change and Contemporary Holiday-Making Urry, John Theory Culture Society, Feb 1988; vol. 5: pp. 35-55 ------------------------------------------------------------Advertising and Ideology: An Interpretive Framework Wernick, Andrew Theory Culture Society, Feb 1983; vol. 2: pp. 16-33 ------------------------------------------------------------Life (Vitalism) Lash, Scott Theory Culture Society, May 2006; vol. 23: pp. 323-329 This entry is about the concept of vitalism. The currency of vitalism has reemer ged in the context of the changes in the sciences, with the rise of ideas of u

ncertainty and complexity, and the rise of the global information society. This is because the notion of life has always favoured an idea of becoming over one of being, of movement over stasis, of action over structure, of flow and flux. The global information order seems to be characterized by flow'. There are thre e important generations of modern vitalists. There is a generation of 1840-45 in cluding Nietzsche and the sociologist Tarde; the generation of 1860 including th e philosopher Bergson and the sociologist Simmel; and the generation of 1925-33 including Deleuze, Foucault and Negri. Vitalist or neo-vitalist themes are parti cularly useful in the analysis of life itself, but thinkers such as Donna Hara way and Katharine Hayles put things in reverse. They understand not the media in terms of life, but life in terms of media. Thus a mediatic principle or algor ithmic principle also structures life. If classical vitalism conceives of life a s flow and in opposition to the structures that would contain and stop it, then neo-vitalism would seem to have its roots in something like a media or informat ion heuristic. Thus there is talk today that information is alive'. ------------------------------------------------------------Experience Lash, Scott Theory Culture Society, May 2006; vol. 23: pp. 335-341 For Kant, experience is epistemological, whereas ontological experience (Gadame r) is in the first instance poetic and Romantic (Schiller, Goethe). In contradis tinction to Kantian Erfahrung, it is most often called Erlebni{beta}. We note further that Erfahrung is cognitive experience while Erlebnis is also aesthetic experience. Dilthey and Husserl understand experience pertaining to knowledge t hrough Erlebnis. In epistemological or classificatory knowledge the parts add up to the whole. Ontological knowledge instead is holistic in which the whole is present in each of the parts. In ontological knowledge we can know things the mselves. Ontological experience is particularly important for global knowledge. This is because knowing another culture is not reducible to a culture's qualit ies or predicates. Culture as a way or form of life is a thingitself. A third ty pe of experience is informational experience. This collapses the epistemologic al into the ontological and is also increasingly present today. This sort of exp erience of non-linear information theory can account for the experience of soc ieties, of individual humans, of digital media, of neuronal networks, of phenoty pes, urban forms, of cellular organisms, or of inorganic matter. ------------------------------------------------------------Technological Forms of Life Lash, Scott Theory Culture Society, Feb 2001; vol. 18: pp. 105-120 This article attempts to gain purchase on the information society via the notion of `technological forms of life'. It first addresses the idea of `forms of life '. Forms of life are a mode of conceiving of culture that arose at the turn of t he 20th century in conjunction with phenomenology. Previously, in early modernit y, culture was conceived very much on a representational model. The rest of the essay explores the possibility that a new paradigm of culture, i.e. technologica l forms of life is emerging at the turn of the 21st century. Technological forms of life are understood as `culture-at-a-distance'. They are the flattening, str etch-out, speed-up and lift-out of forms of life. They are forms of life become

non-linear. They involve the exteriorization of inferiority and reflexivity. ------------------------------------------------------------Reflexive Modernization: The Aesthetic Dimension Lash, Scott Theory Culture Society, Feb 1993; vol. 10: pp. 1-23 ------------------------------------------------------------Revisiting Bodies and Pleasures Butler, Judith Theory Culture Society, Apr 1999; vol. 16: pp. 11-20 Foucault proposes at the end of the first volume of The History of Sexuality to shift the focus of sexual studies from sex-desire to bodies and pleasures. This article seeks to establish what he means by this shift, how he proposes it be ma de, and what the consequences are for thinking about sexuality together with `se x'. Foucault's shift involves a historiographical claim about the superability o f the recent past, and can be read as an effort to relegate the concerns about s exual difference and kinship to the past, and to establish a contemporary field for sexuality that involves bodies without history, pleasures without sex. The a rticle suggests a way around this questionable historiographical assumption and marks a different departure for a Foucauldian study of sexuality. It also seeks to highlight some of the contemporary tensions between feminist and lesbian and gay studies, especially queer studies, in light of this reading of Foucault.