Life Inc - Douglas Rushkoff Audiobook
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Written by Douglas Rushkoff
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
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.
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| Creation Date: | Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:14:42 -0500 |
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| 01. Introduction - Your Money or Your Life - A Lesson on the Front Stoop.mp3 35.78 MBs | |
| 02. Chapter 1 - Once Removed - The Corporate Lifeform.mp3 49.28 MBs | |
| 03. Chapter 2 - Mistaking the Map for the Territory - Colonialism & the Disconnect from Place.mp3 51.87 MBs | |
| 04. Chapter 3 - The Ownership Society - Real Estate & the Disconnect from Home.mp3 46.04 MBs | |
| 05. Twice Removed - No Money Down.mp3 47.96 MBs | |
| 06. Chapter 4 - Individually Wrapped - Public Relations & the Disconnect from One Another.mp3 76.6 MBs | |
| 07. Chapter 5 - You, You’re the One.mp3 44.84 MBs | |
| 08. Viral Marketing.mp3 35.41 MBs | |
| 09. Chapter 6 - To Whom Credit is Due - Self-Interest & the Disconnect from Currency.mp3 69.07 MBs | |
| 10. Chapter 7 - From Ecology to Economy - Big Business & the Disconnect from Value.mp3 36.08 MBs | |
| 11. Scorecards.mp3 54.21 MBs | |
| 12. Chapter 8 - No Returns - How Resistance Disconnects Us Even Further.mp3 46.69 MBs | |
| 13. Chapter 9 - Here & Now - The Opportunity to Reconnect.mp3 39.69 MBs | |
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