false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255701030m/4935013.jpg 4935013 1 <b>A captivating book that reveals how corporations have come to dominate all aspects of life—including our inner lives—and what to do about it</b><br><br>Something has gone terribly wrong. Unquestionably, but seemingly inexplicably, we now live in a world where the market has infiltrated every area of our lives. <br><br>In <i>Life Incorporated,</i> brilliant and charismatic cultural theorist Douglas Rushkoff argues that we no longer know who we are, or what we want. Everything, especially authenticity, is branded. Real community and real intimacy have broken down, replaced by market-tested cures for everything from weight, to conception, to poverty, to food, to finding a mate. The market, and its operating system, Corporatism, is no longer something people build and control. Rather, it builds and controls us.<br><br>Rushkoff, in tracing the roots of corporatism from the Renaissance to today, reveals the way it supplanted social interaction and local commerce and came to be regarded as a preexisting condition of our world, from the history of public relations to the relentless gentrification of America’s urban neighborhoods. And he shows us how to fight back: how to de-corporatize ourselves, disengage from branded expectations, think locally, and return to the real world of human activity. As Rushkoff puts it, “Micro-decisions are what matter.” 5000674 28 7 2009 Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back total:83|5:27|4:34|3:13|2:6|1:3| 83 325 343 35 4 0 false false Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 08:07:49 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 07:14:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 10:49:10 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 11:17:14 -0700 2009 web site. In short, the book is about two things: how people in society came to adopt the values of corporate interests as their own as opposed to vice versa, and just how this trend can be reversed. W...more...]]> 0 1 false false Tue Jun 16 08:25:27 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 08:25:27 -0700 2009 Guardian: "His thesis is that centuries of corporate influence have turned us into a world of isolated, individualistic people pitted against each other. It's familiar territory for the followers of Naomi Klein or Joel Bakan, the author of The Corporation, a damning examination of modern busine...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 07:12:33 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 18:18:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 20:29:29 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 14:56:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 15:37:04 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 16:51:48 -0700 2009 1. That he got mugged and the people in his neighborhood worried more about the bad publicity reducing their property value than the neighborly / community warning that a mugger might be in the area.

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Only to discover it was a pretty poorly written, boring, rambling, rant that I struggled to finish.

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