Your Call Is Very Important to Us: Advertising and the Corporate Theft of Personhood

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Richard Hardack

Your Call Is Very Important to Us

Advertising and the Corporate Theft of Personhood

Richard Hardack

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Rowman & Littlefield
15 May 2023

Corporate governance & responsibilities; Company, commercial & competition law; Financial law

In a unique exploration of how corporations appropriate the rights and identities of people, Richard Hardack unearths the unexpected consequences of corporate America’s quest to dominate every aspect of our culture.

Not only do corporations govern our economy, but corporate personas define our identities and shape our relationships with people and the world around us. In a timely and wide-ranging study, Hardack recontextualizes the inordinate influence of corporations and corporate advertising as a legal, political, psychological, and sociological phenomenon. He connects a surprising array of topics, including advertising, pop culture, representations of nature, science fiction, legal history, the history of colonization and slavery, and the longing to transcend individuality, to show how the principles of corporate personhood—the idea that corporation are people—allow corporations to impersonate and displace actual people. Throughout, Hardack also provides a novel reassessment of the pernicious role and effect of advertising in our daily lives.

The book makes accessible a complex topic and integrates many pressing issues in the U.S., including the privatization of the public sphere; the escalating polarization of wealth and rights; unchecked corporate power, influence and monopoly; and the descent of political debate and policy into the language of advertising, branding, and entertainment. Hardack treats the assumptions that foster corporate personhood as both cause and effect, driver and symptom, of a series of transformations in U.S. society. Awakened to this foundational way corporations infiltrate most human activities and interactions, readers can better understand and safeguard themselves against systemic changes to the American economy, culture, and politics.

By: Richard Hardack
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 667g
ISBN: 9781538177730
ISBN 10: 1538177730
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 15 May 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Richard Hardack, who holds a Ph.D. and JD from Berkeley, has applied his love of history, law, and literature to projects such as NASA’s History of the Juno Mission to Jupiter; a book titled Not Altogether Human: Pantheism and the Dark Nature of the American Renaissance; and the courses he’s taught at the University of California, Berkeley and Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges.

Reviews for Your Call Is Very Important to Us: Advertising and the Corporate Theft of Personhood

Richard Hardack approaches the topic of corporate personhood through a unique perspective that focuses on the primary means by which corporations attempt to capture our attention--their use of advertising. His lucid and nuanced discussion ranges across history, law, literature, philosophy, and popular culture to provide a novel analysis of this timely subject.--Simon Stern, professor of law and English, University of Toronto