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Thomas Frank
American
Author
About the author
These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.
Thomas Frank,
American
Author
#Talk
#Popular
#Focus
#Computer
#Internet
In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.
Thomas Frank,
American
Author
#America
#Business
In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.
Thomas Frank,
American
Author
#People
#Culture
#Tycoon
What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.
Thomas Frank,
American
Author
#Culture
I was in a bad mood when I wrote that.
Thomas Frank,
American
Author
I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.
Thomas Frank,
American
Author
#People
#World
#May
#Free will
#Circumstances
#Potential