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"Each August staff and volunteers begin to construct Black Rock City, a temporary city located in the hostile and haunting Black Rock Desert of northwestern Nevada. Every September nearly seventy thousand people occupy the city for Burning Man, an event that creates the sixth largest population center in Nevada. By mid-September the infrastructure that supported the community is fully dismantled, and by October the land on which the city lay is scrubbed of evidence of its existence. The Archaeology of Burning Man examines this process of building, occupation, and destruction. For nearly a decade Carolyn L. White has employed archeological methods-including mapping, surveying, photographing, interviewing, and participant observation--to analyze the various aspects of life and community in and around Burning Man and Black Rock City. With a syncretic approach that draws on scholarship in archaeology, cultural anthropology, geography, and philosophy, this work in active site archaeology provides both a theoretical basis and a practical demonstration of the potential of this new field to reexamine the most fundamental conceptions in the social sciences"--

Human settlements --- Archaeology --- Fieldwork --- Burning Man (Festival)

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Das Buch nimmt den Leser als intellektuelles Abenteuer auf eine Reise durch eine sorgfältig zusammengestellte Auswahl von 120 Orten, die als Metaphern der zeitgenössischen "Kultur" verstanden werden können und somit den Zustand unserer heutigen Welt wiederspiegeln. Diese Orte, die über alle sieben Kontinente verteilt sind, von den Tiefen des Ozeans bis zum Weltraum, gliedern sich in sechs Kapitel: Paradiese, Utopien, Maschinen, Ungeheuer, Ruinen und Instrumente. Das Spektrum reicht vom Apple Park von Steve Jobs in Kalifornien über einen Nationalpark in Costa Rica, eine kleine Feldstation für den Schutz der Orang Utans auf Borneo, Afrikas Grüne Mauer, das Trump-Resort Mar-a-Lago bis hin zum Grenzzaun zwischen den USA und Mexiko. Die Publikation offeriert eine Grand Tour zu den wichtigsten Orten unserer Zeit. Eine Reise um die Erde von heute der ganz besonderen Art Mit eigens für diese Publikation erstellten, maßgefertigten Karten The book takes the reader on an intellectual adventure through a carefully curated selection of 120 places that can be understood as metaphors of contemporary global culture. Spread across all seven continents, from the depths of the ocean to outer space, these places are divided into six chapters: Paradises, Utopias, Machines, Monsters, Ruins, and Instruments. The spectrum ranges from Steve Jobs' Apple Park in California to a national park in Costa Rica, a small field station for the protection of wild orangutans in Borneo, the Great Green Wall in Central Africa, the Trump resort Mar-a-Lago, to the border wall between Israel and Palestine. This book is a grand tour of the most pertinent places in the world today. A unique and fascinating journey around the world of today Featuring custom-made maps created especially for this publication

Burj Khalifa. --- Chernobyl. --- Contemporary culture. --- Mar-a-Lago. --- Tesla Gigafactory. --- The united nations. --- USA Mexico border. --- Walmart. --- Yellowstone. --- amazon. --- apple park. --- black lives matter plaza. --- burning man. --- cancer alley. --- fracking. --- landscape architecture. --- paradise. --- trump. --- urbanism. --- utopia. --- worldwide journey.

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La 4e de couverture indique : « Fred Turner nous guide au coeur du festival Burning Man, véritable mythe au sein de la Silicon Valley, puis dans les locaux de Facebook, parmi les plus secrets de la planète. Ses observations nourrissent une analyse sur le nouvel usage de l'art comme outil de management et de création d'une culture d'entreprise. Acquisitions, fondations, mécénat : les entreprises utilisent depuis fort longtemps l'art pour manifester leur grandeur et leur rayonnement tant dans leurs bâtiments que dans l'espace public. Depuis quelques années, la Silicon Valley utilise l'art différemment pour créer un nouvel environnement de travail, un nouveau style de vie en entreprise, chaque salarié pouvant apporter ses émotions, son moi profond et sa créativité [...] »

Art and the Internet --- Internet --- Art and technology --- Social aspects --- Google (Firm) --- Facebook (Firm) --- Industrial management --- Corporate culture --- Working class --- Industrial recreation --- Art and society. --- Technology and the arts --- Facebook (Electronic resource) --- Recreation --- Burning Man (Festival) --- Google. --- Internet - Social aspects --- Art and technology - 21st century

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This book, together with a complementary volume Religion in the Neoliberal Age, focus on religion, neoliberalism and consumer society; offering an overview of an emerging field of research in the study of contemporary religion. Claiming that we are entering a new phase of state-religion relations, the editors examine how this is historically anchored in modernity but affected by neoliberalization and globalization of society and social life. Seemingly distant developments, such as marketization and commoditization of religion as well as legalization and securitization of social conflicts, are transforming historical expressions of 'religion' and 'religiosity' yet these changes are seldom if ever understood as forming a coherent, structured and systemic ensemble. Religion in Consumer Society develops a thorough analysis of religion as both shaped by consumer culture and as shaping consumer culture. Following an introduction critically analysing studies on consumer culture and links it to the existing scholarship in the sociology of religion, this book explores the following topics: 1. How have consumerism and electronic media shaped globalized culture, and how this is affecting religion 2. the dynamics and characteristics of often overlooked middle class religion, and how these relate to globalization with respect to differences between 'developed' and 'emerging' countries, 3. emerging trends, and how we understand phenomena as different as megachurches and holistic spiritualistic journeys, and how the pressures of consumer culture act on religious traditions, indigenous and exogenous, 4. the politics of religious phenomena in the Age of Neoliberalism, and -5. the hybrid areas emerging from these reconfigurations of religion and the market. Outlining changes in both the political-institutional and cultural spheres, the contributors offer an international overview of developments in different countries and state of the art representation of religion in the new global political economy.--Publisher

Religion --- Consumption (Economics) --- Neoliberalism. --- Religion and state. --- Religion and sociology. --- Néo-libéralisme --- Religion et Etat --- Sociologie religieuse --- History --- Religious aspects. --- Histoire --- Neoliberalism --- Religion and state --- Religion and sociology --- Religious aspects --- Religion - History - 21st century --- Consumption (Economics) - Religious aspects --- consumerism --- ethos --- consumer society --- world religions --- religion --- individualisation --- religiosity --- modernity --- consumer adaptation --- the Church of Sweden --- religious experience --- modular religion --- Megachurches --- new monasticism --- Buddhism --- pop culture --- American Judaism --- choice and commitment in religious behaviour --- commoditised spiritualities --- commodified religion --- alternative spirituality --- consumer capitalism --- the Burning Man Festival --- the commoditisation of Tibetan Buddhism in Scotland --- neoliberalism and new age --- healing --- neospiritual therapies --- coaching --- Glastonbury