Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture (Häftad)
avJoseph Heath, Andrew Potter
ISBN: 9780060745868 - UTGIVEN: 200412Argues that Americans' constant striving for self-expression and distinction is what drives the consumer society and the continuing cycles of alternative lifestyles that involve a break with contemporary mores and values lead to new opportunities for new products, ad campaigns, and marketing efforts[...]
The Authenticity Hoax: Why the "Real" Things We Seek Don't Make Us Happy (Häftad)
avAndrew Potter
ISBN: 9780061251351 - UTGIVEN: 201105What does it mean to be authentic?The demand for authenticity--the honest or the real--is one of the most powerful movements in contempo-rary life, influencing our moral outlook, political views, and consumer behavior. Yet according to Andrew Potter, when examined closely, our fetish for "authentic"[...]
Quicklet on Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter's Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture
ISBN: 9781614640738 - UTGIVEN: 2012-03ABOUT THE BOOK In their [Adbusters] view, society has become so thoroughly permeated with propaganda and lies, largely as a consequence of advertising, that the culture as a whole has become an enormous system of ideology all designed to reproduce faith in the system. The authors draw on a lot of pe[...]
Beatrix Potter (Inbunden)
avAndrew Norman
ISBN: 9781781591918 - UTGIVEN: 2014-04Even before she emerged from the cot in her nursery Beatrix Potter was up against it. With her prodigious memory she recalled being placed 'under the tyranny of a cross old nurse' who introduced her to 'witches, fairies and the creed of the terrible John Calvin'. More sadness followed. She had no si[...]
Rebel sell - how the counter culture became consumer culture (Pocket)
avAndrew Potter
ISBN: 9781841126555 - UTGIVEN: 200602An explosive rejection of the myth of the counterculture in the most provocative book since No Logo. In this wide-ranging and perceptive work of cultural criticism, Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter shatter the central myth of radical political, economic and cultural thinking.[...]
