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oapen-20.500.12657-439372021-01-25T13:51:03Z The Experience Society Miles, Steven Business & Economics Consumer Behavior bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCK Behavioural economics 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. 2020-12-15T14:10:30Z 2020-12-15T14:10:30Z 2020 book 9781786805607 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/43937 eng application/epub+zip n/a external_content.epub Pluto Press Pluto Press 104207 e7b13f6b-a18c-4c0b-97b8-d1891104b9c4 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781786805607 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Pluto Press Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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