marginal utility annex

Bauman argues that a consumer society means not that people are preoccupied with consumer goods at the expense of meaningful work, or even t...

1. Consumerism is sustained by the ideology that freedom of choice is the only relevant freedom; it implies that society has mastered scarci...

From Digital Suicide and the Biopolitics of Leaving Facebook , by Tero Karppi in Transformations 20: Karppi discusses social media in te...

Chapter 5 (chapter about self-branding) 1. The personal brand is, Marwick argues, "an edited self, requiring emotional labor to maint...

I picked up the term social deskilling from sociologist Zygmunt Bauman's book Consuming Life . It's a variant on Harry Braverman...

From this article by Eli Gothill. Prior to the web, social assets like individuals’ reputation were stored in the collective memory of th...

Apologies in advance for the level of abstraction in this post. Much of this is derived from Georg Franck's essay The Economy of Attenti...