The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on Youtube by Bollmer, Grant
The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on Youtube by Bollmer, Grant

The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on Youtube

Influencers are more than social media personalities who attract attention for brands, argue Grant Bollmer and Katherine...
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The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on Youtube by Bollmer, Grant

The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on Youtube

$100.43
The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on Youtube by Bollmer, Grant

The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on Youtube

$100.43
Author: Grant Bollmer
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Influencers are more than social media personalities who attract attention for brands, argue Grant Bollmer and Katherine Guinness. They are figures of a new transformation in capitalism, in which the logic of the self is indistinguishable from the logic of the corporation.

Influencers are emblematic of what Bollmer and Guinness call the "Corpocene" a moment in capitalism in which individuals achieve the status of living, breathing, talking corporations. Behind the veneer of leisure and indulgence, most influencers are laboring daily, usually for pittance wages, to manufacture a commodity called "the self"--a raw material for brands to use--with the dream of becoming corporations in human form by owning and investing in the products they sell. Refuting the theory that digital labor and economies are immaterial, Bollmer and Guinness search influencer content for evidence of the material infrastructure of capitalism. Each chapter looks to what literally appears in the backgrounds of videos and images: the houses, cars, warehouses, and spaces of the market that point back to the manufacturing and circulation of consumer goods. Demonstrating the material reality of producing the self as a commodity, The Influencer Factory makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of contemporary economic life.



Author: Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 04/16/2024
Pages: 254
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9781503638792

About the Author
Grant Bollmer is Senior Lecturer in Digital Media, and Katherine Guinness is Lecturer in Art History, at the University of Queensland.
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