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The clichéd TV image of supporters watching forlorn as their downtrodden team look like losing an important game, and yet rematerialise exulted when they catch themselves appearing on the big screen in the stadium, speaks to a process that tells us everything we need to know. In this moment the experience is no longer of a sporting event but of a process in which the self is located via the event. This is all underpinned by the frailties that underpin human existence and by how easily such frailties can be used and exploited for the so-called economic good. But the point here is that the consumer is more complicit in this process than he or she may have been in the past. He or she is fully aware of the power that the media possesses and he or she appears to embrace that power.
The Experience Society
Steven Miles
‘The result was the concentration of some groups in the 1970s’, writes Pirie (he often talks about himself and his friends in the third person), ‘not on the battle for ideas, but on policy engineering. Instead of simply waving free market flags and shouting the traditional battle cries, attention […] turned instead to the technical and mechanical details of policies’. These intellectuals saw themselves less as tribunes or propagandists than as ‘policy engineers’ who ‘constructed machines which worked’.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
Political strategy and advocacy firms at all levels of government can offer experienced teams with expertise, networks, and relationships nonprofits don’t have. Instead of reinventing the wheel, we’ve often contracted with political consulting firms that have roots in both major parties.
Getting Political Is Good for Everyone
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