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Endless propaganda : the advertising of public goods /

"Is there any public discourse left, or has advertising, with its aggressive sales techniques, usurped the role of democratic, civil debate? Beginning in the 1960s, there was a proliferation of social, political, and corporate advertising in affluent, developed nations that spoke to the "p...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rutherford, Paul, 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2000]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Advertising as Propaganda
  • Part I: Beginnings. *Habermas's Lament. The Imperialism of the Market: The United States, 1940-1970
  • Part II: Authority's Work. *Gramsci: Hegemony. Restoring Order: Nixon's America, Etcetera
  • Governing Affluence: The First World in the Seventies
  • Part III: Campaigns of Truth. *Foucault: Discipline. Healthy Bodies, or the New Paranoia
  • Charitable Souls: The Practice of Altruism
  • Administered Minds, or Shaming the Citizenry
  • Appropriations: Benetton and Others
  • *A 'Risk' Technology
  • Part IV: Progress and Its Ills. *Ricoeur: Utopia/Dystopia. Technopia and Other Corporate Dreams
  • Green Nightmares: Humanity versus Nature
  • Part V: Hyperrealities.*Baudrillard and Company: Spectacle, Image, Simulacrum. When Politics Becomes Advertising: The American Scene
  • Conclusion: Postmodern Democracy.