Life Inc: how corporatism conquered the world, and how we can take it back
Cultural theorist Rushkoff reveals how corporations have come to dominate all aspects of life--including our inner lives--and what to do about it. In tracing the roots of corporatism from the Renaissance to today, Rushkoff reveals the way it supplanted social interaction and local commerce and came to be regarded as a pre-existing condition of our world.
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- Full title :Life Inc. : how corporatism conquered the world, and how we can take it back / Douglas Rushkoff.
Summary
Cultural theorist Rushkoff reveals how corporations have come to dominate all aspects of life--including our inner lives--and what to do about it. In tracing the roots of corporatism from the Renaissance to today, Rushkoff reveals the way it supplanted social interaction and local commerce and came to be regarded as a pre-existing condition of our world.
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- Publication Date:2011.
- Edition:Random House Trade paperback ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
Notes
"Now includes the Life Inc. guide to reclaiming the value you create"--Cover.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxv, 347 pages
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0812978501, 9780812978506
- oclc:ocn865337475
- LC Classification:BJ1581.2
- Dewey Decimal:306.0973
Table of Contents
Your money or your life : a lesson on the front stoop -- Once removed : the corporate life-form: charters and the disconnect from commerce -- Mistaking the map for the territory: colonialism and the disconnect from place -- The ownership society: real estate and the disconnect from home -- Individually wrapped: public relations and the disconnect from one another -- You, you're the one: consumer empowerment and the disconnect from choice -- To whom credit is due: self-interest and the disconnect from currency -- From ecology to economy: big business and the disconnect from value -- No returns: how resistance disconnects us even further -- Here and now: the opportunity to reconnect.
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