The Crisis of Consumption: On Advertising as a Political Form

• In Event: Citizenship as Consumership? Exploring Political Agency, Contestation, and Control Amidst New Media and Technologies

Brief Overview

The rise of twentieth-century consumerism was a political project, not merely a commercial or economic shift: the modern advertising-system stabilizes capitalist society by recasting dilemmas of production as opportunities for expanded consumption.

Authors

• Alicia Steinmetz, Florida International University

• Matt Shafer, Florida International University