Description: The Influencer Factory by Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness 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. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Grant Bollmer is Senior Lecturer in Digital Media, and Katherine Guinness is Lecturer in Art History, at the University of Queensland. Table of Contents AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. House2. Car3. Market4. Warehouse5. CorpoceneFurther ViewingNotesBibliographyIndex Review "Dont read this book if you want to learn how to become an influencer. Do read this book if youre concerned about the self being reduced to a mere product circulating on an endless social media reel. As Bollmer and Guinness convincingly demonstrate, influencer culture is only about celebrity and entertainment on the surface. The real story here concerns the reorganization of capital in the 21st century, and this is a story we all need to understand as it is ultimately about how workers who once made products have become products."—Kate Eichhorn, The New School"A dazzling and organic application of cultural theory, The Influencer Factory is a lively and provocative read for anyone invested in understanding how a new, expansive, and important sector of our cultural economy works."—Michael Palm, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"At the intersection of authenticity, identity, and commerce, we find Bollmer and Guinness engaged in next-gen platform capitalism studies. The Influencer Factory nimbly combines digital media theory and political economy, with attention to the labor and infrastructure behind the corporate self."—Alexandra Juhasz, Brooklyn College CUNY"This compelling book gives voice to the often-invisible work of influencers. From the house and car to market and warehouse, The Influencer Factory puts influencers, their work and what they reflect about contemporary media culture into context—historically, socially, and culturally."—Larissa Hjorth, RMIT University, Melbourne"I feel like this is how nineteenth century proletarians must have felt reading Marx: like it just perfectly describes every last tiny indignity of working life, even the ones youd never fully noticed before."—Andrew Ladd, Whats New Details ISBN1503638790 Author Katherine Guinness Publisher Stanford University Press Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781503638792 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-04-16 Imprint Stanford University Press Subtitle A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YouTube Place of Publication Palo Alto Country of Publication United States Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2024-04-16 DEWEY 302.231 Pages 254 Alternative 9781503637924 ISBN-10 1503638790 UK Release Date 2024-04-16 Illustrations 13 halftones We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161759850;
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