Just finished perusing Douglas Rushkoff’s Life Inc: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back. Note the villain is “corporatism,” not simply corporations. Even corporations themselves are victimized; they get tilted into self-destructive acts by decision frameworks that benefit nobody — only roughly satisfying some people’s abstract sense that “the market [...]
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Douglas Rushkoff is one of those writers I imagine my own work resembling. We have a lot of the same ideas and sentiments: fairly critical of business and marketing but not in a simple anti-capitalist way. Get Back in the Box has a fairly central place in my bibliography. His documentaries for PBS Frontline, The [...]
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