Your Call Is Very Important to Us

Richard Hardack

doi:10.5771/9781538177747

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-5381-7773-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-7774-7
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 368
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
Chapter One. A Conceptual Overview No access Pages 1 - 8
Chapter Two. The Zero-Sum Game of Corporate Personhood No access Pages 9 - 24
Chapter Three. You’re Soaking in It No access Pages 25 - 28
Chapter Four. He Can’t Be a Man ’CauseHe Doesn’t Smokethe Same Detergent Pack as Me No access Pages 29 - 32
Chapter Five. The Nature of Corporations No access Pages 33 - 52
Chapter Six. Pumpkins and Sugarplums No access Pages 53 - 58
Chapter Seven. The Animated Corporation No access Pages 59 - 62
Chapter Eight. Truth and Soul No access Pages 63 - 70
Chapter Nine. Your Call Is Very Important to Us No access Pages 71 - 74
Chapter Ten. There’s No Their There No access Pages 75 - 78
Chapter Eleven.You Can’t See the Corporation for the CEOs No access Pages 79 - 82
Chapter Twelve. Unpersoned No access Pages 83 - 94
Chapter Thirteen. Buy with Confidence No access Pages 95 - 98
Chapter Fourteen. Habeas Corporation No access Pages 99 - 100
Chapter Fifteen. Paranoid Desires No access Pages 101 - 110
Chapter Sixteen. The Gap between Signifier and Signified No access Pages 111 - 120
Chapter Seventeen. It’s All Theater No access Pages 121 - 124
Chapter Eighteen. Corpography No access Pages 125 - 130
Chapter Nineteen. Corporate Exceptionalism No access Pages 131 - 136
Chapter Twenty. Anonymous Autonomy No access Pages 137 - 148
Chapter Twenty-One. When Texas Executes One No access Pages 149 - 154
Chapter Twenty-Two. Immortality and Impersonation No access Pages 155 - 160
Chapter Twenty-Three. Corporations Have No Souls No access Pages 161 - 172
Chapter Twenty-Four. Extremely Hostile Takeovers No access Pages 173 - 174
Chapter Twenty-Five. A Little Less than Kin No access Pages 175 - 184
Chapter Twenty-Six. And Now the Wordsfrom Our Sponsor No access Pages 185 - 186
Chapter Twenty-Seven. New and Improved: The Zero-Sum Game of Corporate Personhood No access Pages 187 - 190
Chapter Twenty-Eight. The Whole World Is an America, a New World No access Pages 191 - 194
Chapter Twenty-Nine. The Transcendental Franchise No access Pages 195 - 198
Chapter Thirty. Advertising Makes the World Uniform: The New World as the Whole World No access Pages 199 - 202
Chapter Thirty-One. Warning Signs No access Pages 203 - 206
Chapter Thirty-Two. Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam,Trust, and Spam No access Pages 207 - 210
Chapter Thirty-Three. Advertising Creep: The End of Public Space No access Pages 211 - 214
Chapter Thirty-Four. The Age of Advertisements: What’s Your Sign? No access Pages 215 - 216
Chapter Thirty-Five. Sponsored Language No access Pages 217 - 224
Chapter Thirty-Six. I’m Not an Actor, but I Play One on TV No access Pages 225 - 228
Chapter Thirty-Seven. Pretty Lies, Unclean Hands No access Pages 229 - 232
Chapter Thirty-Eight. The Rise of the Impersonation State No access Pages 233 - 246
Chapter Thirty-Nine. I Have Met the Alien No access Pages 247 - 254
Chapter Forty. Corporations Cannot Speak No access Pages 255 - 262
Chapter Forty-One. A Marketplace of Rights No access Pages 263 - 266
Chapter Forty-Two. Commercial Personhood No access Pages 267 - 274
Chapter Forty-Three. Advertisements against Myself No access Pages 275 - 278
Chapter Forty-Four. The Self as Ad No access Pages 279 - 284
Chapter Forty-Five. Schadenfreudian Slips: Ad Copy and the Culture of Envy No access Pages 285 - 288
Chapter Forty-Six. Pop-Ups and Pinups Advertising Sex and Violence No access Pages 289 - 292
Chapter Forty-Seven. The Art of Lying No access Pages 293 - 294
Chapter Forty-Eight. Needs and Wants No access Pages 295 - 296
Chapter Forty-Nine. Farewell Welfare No access Pages 297 - 300
Chapter Fifty. Ask Your Advertiser If Advertising Is Right for You No access Pages 301 - 306
Chapter Fifty-One. Living Outside the Market? No access Pages 307 - 310
Chapter Fifty-Two. How Soon Is Nowhere? Advertising Academia No access Pages 311 - 318
Chapter Fifty-Three. Gravekeepers No access Pages 319 - 320
Chapter Fifty-Four. Imagine a World without Advertising No access Pages 321 - 324
Notes No access Pages 325 - 342
Acknowledgments No access Pages 343 - 344
Bibliography No access Pages 345 - 358
Index No access Pages 359 - 366
About the Author No access Pages 367 - 368