紐約大學教授,是當前研究與評論虛擬文化的重量級人物(也是爭議性人物)被評論界譽為“麥剋盧漢接班人”。他同時也為《紐約時報》和美國國傢公共廣播電颱撰稿。除教學、研究、寫作外,還應 邀在世界各地演講。已經初步六本書籍,包括《網絡空間》和《媒體病毒》等。
This didn’t just happen.
In Life Inc. , award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and scholar Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from being convenient legal fictions to being the dominant fact of contemporary life. Indeed, as Rushkoff shows, most Americans have so willingly adopted the values of corporations that they’re no longer even aware of it.
This fascinating journey, from the late Middle Ages to today, reveals the roots of our debacle. From the founding of the first chartered monopoly to the branding of the self; from the invention of central currency to the privatization of banking; from the birth of the modern, self-interested individual to his exploitation through the false ideal of the single-family home; from the Victorian Great Exhibition to the solipsism of MySpace–the corporation has infiltrated all aspects of our daily lives. Life Inc . exposes why we see our homes as investments rather than places to live, our 401(k) plans as the ultimate measure of success, and the Internet as just another place to do business.
Most of all, Life Inc. shows how the current financial crisis is actually an opportunity to reverse this six-hundred-year-old trend and to begin to create, invest, and transact directly rather than outsource all this activity to institutions that exist solely for their own sakes.
Corporatism didn’t evolve naturally. The landscape on which we are living–the operating system on which we are now running our social software–was invented by people, sold to us as a better way of life, supported by myths, and ultimately allowed to develop into a self-sustaining reality. It is a map that has replaced the territory.
Rushkoff illuminates both how we’ve become disconnected from our world and how we can reconnect to our towns, to the value we can create, and, mostly, to one another. As the speculative economy collapses under its own weight, Life Inc. shows us how to build a real and human-scaled society to take its place.
發表於2024-09-06
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核心:【與其說我們以自然人的身份在行動,不如說我們正嚮公司一樣在運作自己——當麵對本地的惡一起搶劫事件的時候,公園破社區首先想到的是保護自己的品牌】 偶發善心或處於愧疚的慈善是不夠的,關鍵在於激勵機製 【就像我們曾經從臣民成長為公民一樣,我們正在從公民轉變...
評分核心:【與其說我們以自然人的身份在行動,不如說我們正嚮公司一樣在運作自己——當麵對本地的惡一起搶劫事件的時候,公園破社區首先想到的是保護自己的品牌】 偶發善心或處於愧疚的慈善是不夠的,關鍵在於激勵機製 【就像我們曾經從臣民成長為公民一樣,我們正在從公民轉變...
評分作為備受商業社會浸泡的一代,我相信,小資、文藝本身就是被客戶細分的一個後果,正如曾經讀過的某篇文章分析為何女孩衣物用品的顔色是粉色、紅色等等而男生的則是藍色等。 實際上我們很多人都已經忘記瞭事物或者生活的本質是什麼,所接觸到的都是被商業美化的被政治教化的社會...
評分相信所有人對於公司都不陌生,然而令我感到好奇的是,很多人對於在公司上班覺得不開心的時候,最多隻是抱怨自己的公司或者同事,或者隻是跳槽到另一傢公司而已,卻鮮少有人對於公司這一存在提齣質疑。(也許是因為除瞭打工和創業,很多人也不知道怎麼賺錢吧) 所有人似乎已經完...
評分核心:【與其說我們以自然人的身份在行動,不如說我們正嚮公司一樣在運作自己——當麵對本地的惡一起搶劫事件的時候,公園破社區首先想到的是保護自己的品牌】 偶發善心或處於愧疚的慈善是不夠的,關鍵在於激勵機製 【就像我們曾經從臣民成長為公民一樣,我們正在從公民轉變...
圖書標籤: 社會學 文化學 設計 英文 美國 經濟 社會 生活
討論今天的企業和金錢的係統來源和這個係統為什麼不能再繼續下去。
評分討論今天的企業和金錢的係統來源和這個係統為什麼不能再繼續下去。
評分討論今天的企業和金錢的係統來源和這個係統為什麼不能再繼續下去。
評分討論今天的企業和金錢的係統來源和這個係統為什麼不能再繼續下去。
評分討論今天的企業和金錢的係統來源和這個係統為什麼不能再繼續下去。
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