Time and Commodity Culture: Essays on Cultural Theory and Postmodernity

by John Frow

Time and Commodity Culture is a detailed and theoretically sophisticated account of the cultural systems of postmodernity. Through a series of four linked essays on postmodern theory, tourism, gift exchange and commodity exchange, and the social organization of memory, it explores some of the implications of the commodification of culture for the contemporary and postmodern world.

Paperback

First published December 11, 1997

Reviews

[Tom Leland · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you can understand, and be interested, in a sentence like this: "The account continues to reduce the heterogeneity of modernism to a paradigm of epochal closure." Then this book's for you.

There must be 63 people on earth who could follow this megaton-weighted syntax. If the author could break it into lay language, it could be a useful book to a wider (though still exclusive) audience.

[Jesse]

[Read for chapter on Resnais's Toute la mémoire du monde.]