Beyond Consumer Capitalism : Media and the Limits to Imagination (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements page vii

1 Introduction: The problems of consumer capitalism in the twenty-first century – and why we find it so
difficult to appreciate them 1

Part I Stretching beyond its limits: The tired machinery of consumer capitalism

2 Consumer capitalism as a cul-de-sac 15

3 The environmental, economic and social constraints of consumer capitalism 26

Part II Selling stories

4 The insatiable age 53

5 Tales of sales: The politics of advertising 70

Part III Reporting consumer capitalism

6 Disposable news and democracy: Rethinking the way we report the world 93

7 Disposable news, consumerism and growth 111

Part IV Waste and retrieval

8 Obsessed with obsolescence: Confusing hyperconsumption with progress 133

9 Imagining a different world 154

Notes 177

References 205

Index 223