We live in an age when consumption and consuming have come to define us.Consumption now a global phenomenon is so dominant it allows little room foralternatives... » 

We live in an age when consumption and consuming have come to define us.Consumption now a global phenomenon is so dominant it allows little room foralternatives. At the same time information and digitization have become allpervasive in our media culture . As ever greater aspects of the world have cometo be seen as data information has increasingly become the very currency ofconsumption. Consumption in an Age of Information maps this new terrain.Bringing together some of the worlds leading theorists and critics the essaysrange across high theory and popular culture from informational flows toscience fiction simulations from popcultural consumption to capitalism asreligion from the consumption of time to the role of speed in contemporaryculture. «