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postindustrial

ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to a society or economy marked by a lessened importance of manufacturing and an increase of services, information, and research
    postindustrial countries

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  • To augment the brigades 'efforts, TerraCycle also is collecting what's called postindustrial waste from many manufacturers -- which includes excess labels or packaging with misprints that never makes it to market. TerraCycle Fashions a New Life
  • While many urbanists have dismissed "anti-cities" such as Houston and Los Angeles, which lack such a core, these metropolises will be, in fact, 2050's dominant "postindustrial" urban models. Inside 'The Next Hundred Million'
  • The positive side of youthful disaffiliation during the sixties was the discovery of a new postindustrial standard of wealth and well-being that borrowed heavily upon oriental philosophy.
  • BEIJING — China's rise as the world's second-largest economy highlights a new postindustrial reality: Population counts as much as productivity in determining economic power. Massive Population Lifts Nation's Growth
  • Literary posterity will probably regard it as an interesting but failed experiment, taking Updike away from his usual themes and mileu, although not completely: its exploration of religious belief is consistent with much of his previous fiction, and the town of New Prospect, New Jersey could easily enough be a depiction of Brewer, Pennsylvania in its own decayed postindustrial latter days. Updike, John
  • And then you have underground writers whose "edginess" comes from the economic facts of their lives (refugees from the postindustrial Midwest in some cases) who have never received support or encouragement from any arts institution-- government, foundation, university or foundation (or your newspaper for that matter)-- who aren't trying to be "hip" and if anything are anti-hip, yet despite all obstacles-- real obstacles-- continue creating and performing their art regardless. Art and the city ...
  • But today, the "postindustrial" mode of imperialism is more about recycling wealth to produce capital gains, mainly by globalizing and privatizing the Bubble Economy. Darwiniana
  • From the earliest days of his government, he very consciously turned the Dome into an emblem of "New Britain," Blair's earnest if gauzy vision of a revitalized postimperial, postindustrial nation that, as he has said, "will not be the mightiest nation of the 21st century in size or population, but ... can be the best. Why The Dome Was A Dud
  • So Ballardian equals “picturesque, postindustrial decay,” “kinky technophilia,” and “perverted obsessions with celebrities.” Ballardian » The 032c Interview: Simon Reynolds on Ballard, part 2
  • Any number of terms have already been coined to describe postindustrial labor, and the authors' own elaborations on the phenomenon are passably interesting.
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