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Author_Allan Pred
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Cultural Reworkings
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Dagens Nyheter
DAVID HARVEY
Dick Head
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European Capitalist Modernities
exhibition
Gregor Paulsson
Home Furnishing Industries
King Oscar II
Large Metropolitan Complexes
Le Corbusier
Machinery Hall
Main Restaurant
morss
Nya Dagligt Allehanda
nyheter
Park Restaurant
Plaster Of Paris
Simple Line
Social Demokraten
space
spectacular
Spectacular Space
stockholm
Stockholm Exhibition
Stockholm Globe
Stockholms Dagblad
susan
symbolic
Symbolic Discontent
Town Hall
WALTER BENJAMIN
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415119047
- Weight: 700g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 09 Mar 1995
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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For over a century, Europe has been characterised by a plurality of capitalist modernities. At any moment, each country possesses its own distinctly modern qualities which are partly shaped through interrelationships with other countries. Each European commodity society has experienced successive, but different overlapping, periods of industrial modernity (large scale factories and urban growth), high modernity (social modernization promoted by social engineering) and hypermodernity (the acceleration of modernity, yielding new circumstances and sensibilities). Interrogating contemporary hypermodern Europe thus requires an exploration of industrial and high modern Europe. Recognising European Modernities explores a century of civilisation through a critical examination of the extreme case of Sweden. Using montage - relayering multiple pasts and on-going present - the book challenges the contemporary obsession with postmodernity, demanding a deeper, more connective understanding of the pleasures and dangers of the European present. The author visits three spectacular spaces: the Stockholm Exhibition of 1897, the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930 and the Globe, a contemporary multi-purpose arena. Analysis of these pivotal spaces reveals the on-going process of modernization as new forms of consumption are repeatedly entangled in changing discourses of power to be reworked and translated into cultural politics.
