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Authentic (TM)

The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture

Autor: Sarah Banet-Weiser

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Editura: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Brands are everywhere. Branding is central to political campaigns and political protest movements; t...

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Autor

Sarah Banet-Weiser

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2012

Pagini

279

EAN

9780814787137

ISBN

0814787134

Enbook ID

04932652

Editura

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Greutate

476

Dimensiuni

153 x 229 x 23

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Brands are everywhere. Branding is central to political campaigns and political protest movements; the alchemy of social media and self-branding creates overnight celebrities; the self-proclaimed "greening" of institutions and merchant goods is nearly universal. But while the practice of branding is typically understood as a tool of marketing, a method of attaching social meaning to a commodity as a way to make it more personally resonant with consumers, Sarah Banet-Weiser argues that in the contemporary era, brands are about culture as much as they are about economics. That, in fact, we live in a brand culture. Authentic' maintains that branding has extended beyond a business model to become both reliant on, and reflective of, our most basic social and cultural relations. Further, these types of brand relationships have become cultural contexts for everyday living, individual identity, and personal relationships - what Banet-Weiser refers to as "brand cultures." Distinct brand cultures, that at times overlap and compete with each other, are taken up in each chapter: the normalization of a feminized "self-brand" in social media, the brand culture of street art in urban spaces, religious brand cultures such as "New Age Spirituality" and "Prosperity Christianity," and the culture of green branding and "shopping for change." In a culture where graffiti artists loan their visions to both subway walls and department stores, buying a cup of "fair-trade" coffee is a political statement, and religion is mass-marketed on t-shirts, Banet-Weiser questions the distinction between what we understand as the "authentic" and branding practices. But brand cultures are also contradictory and potentially rife with unexpected possibilities, leading Authentic' to articulate a politics of ambivalence, creating a lens through which we can see potential political possibilities within the new consumerism.

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