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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about strong>'An, em>Economic, Geography with the genre: Science & Math, Earth Sciences?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Consumer Society and the Post-modern City'
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conversations.value: What is the first three paragraphs for this book? End with the sentence ' This will, at last, lead us to a position where the meaning of 'lifestyle' discloses itself.'.
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conversations.value: Consumer Society and the Post-modern City
  The consumer market is... a place where freedom and certainty are offered and obtained together: freedom comes free of pain, while certainty can be enjoyed without detracting from the conviction of subjective autonomy. This is no mean achievement of the consumer market; no other institution has gone this far towards the resolution of the most malignant of the antinomies of freedom.
  A world of abstract systems, and potentially open lifestyle choices... demands active engagement. Trust, that is to say, is invested in the light of selection of alternatives. When such alternatives become filtered out by unexplicated commitments – compulsions – trust devolves into simple repetitive urgency. Frozen trust blocks re-engagement with the abstract systems that have come to dominate the content of day-to-day life.
  We have, in other words, arrived at an entirely paradoxical state of affairs, by way of a wholly unintended route, from which any kind of imminent departure seems increasingly difficult to imagine. As the haunting ground of the puritan's spectre, where formerly opposing principles meld, dream-like, one into the other, where paradox resolves itself in further paradox, the consumer society can only ceaselessly reiterate the hollow promise that satisfaction is guaranteed. The fact that the market can never deliver on its promise might prompt one to believe that such an arrangement is inherently unstable. Yet numerous countervailing tendencies, and the bulk of the evidence, seem to suggest the opposite. Let us therefore familiarize ourselves with the ways in which the market manages to sustain itself against all the odds, and consider the way in which discontent might manifest itself in a society dedicated to its eradication. This will, at last, lead us to a position where the meaning of 'lifestyle' discloses itself.
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conversations.value: What is another paragraph?
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conversations.value: By crossing into a space whose curvature is no longer that of the real... the era of simulation is inaugurated by a liquidation of all referentials.
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conversations.value: What is the last four paragraphs?
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conversations.value: Hence Giddens' (1994) reframing of postmodern society as 'post-traditional' society, which needs to be
  Roberts, J. (1999) 'Philosophizing the everyday: the philosophy of praxis and the fate of cultural studies', Radical Philosophy, 98, 16-29.
  Roberts, M. J. D. (1988) 'Public and private in early nineteenth-century London: the Vagrant Act of 1822 and its enforcement', Social History, 13, 273-94.
  Vanderbeck, R. and Johnson, J. (2000) 'That's the only place where you can hang out: urban young people and the space of the mall', Urban Geography, 21(1), 5-25.