Airbnb gaming escape rooms major sporting events: contemporary capitalism no longer demands
we merely consume things but that we buy experiences. This book is concerned with the social
cultural and personal implications of this shift. The technologically-driven world we live in
is no closer to securing the utopian ideal of a leisure society. Instead the pursuit of
leisure is often an attempt to escape our everyday existence. Exploring examples including
sport architecture travel and social media Steven Miles investigates how consumer culture
has colonised 'experiences' revealing the ideological and psycho-social tensions at the heart
of the 'experience society'. The first critical analysis of the experience economy by a UK
sociologist sheds light on capitalism's ever more sophisticated infiltration of the everyday.
