Thursday, September 24, 7:30-9:30pm
@ The Change You Want To See Gallery
and live-streamed for remote participants at http://livestream.com/notanalternative
Please join us this Thursday for a talk by award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and scholar Douglas Rushkoff. This event kicks off our Fall series on Symbols, Branding, and Persuasion. Rushkoff will discuss concepts he explores in the PBS Frontline series The Persuaders and Merchants of Cool, as well as his latest book Life Inc.. We’ll also screen clips from Life Inc. the Movie.
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.
Each year, legions of ad people, copywriters, market researchers, pollsters, consultants, and even linguists spend billions of dollars and millions of man-hours trying to determine how to persuade consumers what to buy, whom to trust, and what to think. We are swimming in a sea of messages.
