of Tension in Highly Qualified Labor: Between the Artist’s Dilemma and the Superstar Economy
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16 IV Digitalization as Singularization: The Rise of the Culture Machine From Industrial Technics to Digital Technology Notes
17 1 The Technology of Culturalization Algorithms, Digitality, and the Internet as Infrastructures The Digital Culture Machine and the Ubiquity of Culture Culture Between Overproduction and Recombination Notes
18 2 Cultural and Automated Processes of Singularization The Digital Subject: Performative Authenticity and Visibility Compositional Singularity and the Form of the Profile Big Data and the Observation of Profiles The Personalized Internet and Softwarization Digital Neo-Communities and the Sociality of the Internet Fields of Tension in Online Culture: From the Pressure to Create Profiles to Extreme Affect Culture Notes
19 V The Singularistic Life: Lifestyles, Classes, Subject Forms The Late-Modern Self Beyond the Leveled Middle-Class Society The Cultural Class Divide and the “Paternoster-Elevator Effect” Notes
20 1 The Lifestyle of the New Middle Class: Successful Self-Actualization Romanticism and Bourgeois Culture: The New Symbiosis Self-Actualization and the Valorization of Everyday Life The Curated Life Culture as a Resource and Cultural Cosmopolitanism Status Investment and the Prestige of the Unique Notes
21 2 Elements of the Singularistic Lifestyle Food Homes Travel Bodies Parenting and Early Education Work–Life Balance, Urbanity, Juvenilization, Degendering, and New Liberalism Fields of Tension in the Lifestyle of the New Middle Class: The Inadequacy of Self-Actualization Notes
22 3 The Culturalization of Inequality The Underclass’s Way of Life: Muddling Through Cultural Devaluations Singularistic Counter-Strategies of the Underclass The Tableau of Late-Modern Classes and Their Relations Notes
23 VI Differential Liberalism and Cultural Essentialism: The Transformation of the Political The Politics of the Particular Note
24 1 Apertistic–Differential Liberalism and the Politics of the Local From the Social-Democratic Consensus to New Liberalism The Competition State and Diversity: The Two Sides of New Liberalism The Politics of Cities I: New Urbanism and the Global Attractiveness Competition The Politics of Cities II: Culturally Oriented Governmentality and Singularity Management Notes
25 2 The Rise of Cultural Essentialism Collective Identities and Particular Neo-Communities Ethnic Communities Between Self-Culturalization and External Culturalization Cultural Nationalism Religious Fundamentalism Right-Wing Populism Cultural Conflicts Between Essentialism, Hyperculture, and Liberalism The Politics of Violence: Terrorism and Mass Shootings as Celebrations of the Singular Act Notes
26 Conclusion: The Crisis of the General?
27 Notes
28 Bibliography
29 Index
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