This didn’t just happen. In Life Inc., award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and scholar Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from a. Now includes “The Life Inc. Guide to Reclaiming the Value You Create” In Life Inc , award-winning writer Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations. Life Inc. is as fluent and well-researched as any of his books – but its target is too large, and too badly constructed to help us much. In a heaving.
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Review: Life Inc. by Douglas Rushkoff | Books | The Guardian
In some cases, there were supportive footnotes but in others, no — they were just conclusions Mr. A lot to digest, and although not always scholarly enough for some readers it was perfect for me. Close to home, though, douglaa didn’t see much use. Related to that, he invites us to rethink just how good the High Middle Ages, i. After the utopian late middle ages when women were tall and doulas one worked too hard, centralised currencies and the rise of the corporation began to disconnect ordinary folk from one another.
I’m going to write about this one chapter at a time because there’s too much in here to wait until the end. Still plagued by internalized competition and self-interest, most of us are not quite ready to chose the better path, or to convince our neighbors to join us in the effort. But the prisoner’s dilemma does not equal game theory Rushkoff uses the two almost interchangeably. He loosely traces its history, along with that of money as we commonly use the termand interweaves this with a free-flowing discussion douglxs culture and community through the centuries.
I also found myself questioning some of the interpretations and conclusions. The whole book is a relentless attack on capitalism. The former is definitely present; Rushkoff charts the history of the corporation back to the Renaissance. As Walt Whitman wrote, “A man is not a whole or complete man unless he owns a house and the iinc it stands on.
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I have mixed feelings about this book. Statements, which upon researching, I either could not confirm or confirmed partially but not in keeping with the presentation. The most valuable piece of Life Inc. Divided and conquer, as a people but mostly as a mental environment. It goes to I may rank books, on average, a bit on the higher side than some others, but trust me — if you’re politically progressive like I am, this book deserves it indeed.
This activity favored generalization instead of specialization: By removing something from its original context or setting, we kill the sense of awe that we might attach to its uniqueness. To me, a great deal of this history was a rehash of the most excellent documentary series The Century of the Self The full series can be found on Google Video.
Aug 19, Pax Analog rated it really liked it. The book however turned out to be a dilettante’s screed.
Feb 05, Scott Bartlett rated it it was amazing. Inthe richest man in America—John D. Since gold and silver were largely monopolized for governments and international trade, throughout the middle ages local money in various forms was very important. Douglas Rushkoff is a widely known media critic and rushooff.
Reads very current and everything that’s happened in the past few years confirms Rushkoff’s conclusions more than ever I suppose this serves as a reminder as to why I avoid non-fiction written by professional advocates with no background in their topic.
Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back
The core of the book is this analysis: Meanwhile, corporations invested increasingly in advertising. As far as economic arguments go, Life Inc is a little bit all over the place. He goes into more detail in the following chapters. Jan 04, Rebecca McNutt rated it really liked it Shelves: Preview — Life Inc. So Ruahkoff suppose Rushkoff is at heart a polemicist, and a very good one. There have been many good books written recently about the implosion on Wall Street, the massive debt held by Americans, corporations, and the federal government, and the current recession, but few have gone into such depth about the United States and its economic and political discontents as Douglas Rushkoff’s book “Life Inc.: Mar 01, Paula rated it rushkocf it.
Those who control history control the future and in Life Inc. Instead, Rushkoff insults and demeans anyone who does things differently than he would like. As Rushkoff notes, “Corporatism depends first on our disconnection. On the one hand, it raises very interesting, mostly well-argumented points about how capitalism and consumerism doublas or crept into every aspect of life.
This criticism may sound pedantic. For example, the information on PASAR is not wrong insofar as the sentences about it contain no untruths; however, it is misleading by virtue of omitted information.
Jan 11, Andrew rated it really liked it Shelves: Profitable businesses want income to exceed expenses and assets to exceed liabilities, not credit to rushloff debit which latter makes no sense. Computers – once tools for sharing technological resources – ryshkoff into handheld iPhones that reduces formerly shared public spaces to separate bubbles of private conversation and entertainment.
A well known member of the cyberpunk movement—he hung out with acid-tripping Timothy Leary—and the author of books like Media Virus! In fact, according to Rushkoff, the period of the middle ages when local money circulated side-by-side with centralized money brought Europe to a peak of affluence it had not seen since the Roman empire, and would not see again until the industrial revolution. This fascinating journey, from liife late Middle Ages rushkofg today, reveals the roots douglaas our debacle.
A lot of mental gymnastics, all so as to avoid any respons Factual inaccuracies aside, how can a person be this one sided?