It is great to see the republication of the classic Consumer Culture andPostmodernism. The extensive new material is erudite informative andimportant particular... » 

It is great to see the republication of the classic Consumer Culture andPostmodernism. The extensive new material is erudite informative andimportant particularly locating consumer culture in the context of globalclimate change and postmodernism within a framing that seriously displaces thewest from centrestage John Urry Lancaster UniversityThe first edition of this contemporary classic can claim to have put consumerculture on the map certainly in relation to postmodernism. This expanded newedition includes A fully revised preface that explores the developments in consumer culturesince the first edition A major new chapter on Modernity and the Cultural Question An update on postmodernism and the development of contemporary theory afterpostmodernism An account of multiple and alternative modernities The challenges of consumer culture in Japan and ChinaThe result is a book that shakes the boundaries of debate from one of theforemost writers on culture and postmodernism of the present day. «