I’ve just been reading Bauman’s relentlessly depressing The Individualized Society. There is a short essay on instant gratification that deals in part with the way our ability to either locate ourselves in any grand narrative of progress, or to defer gratification for a later time (or life) is lost and replaced with individualised consumer experiences [...]
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June 15, 2009
Margins of Marketing Seminar
On the 12th June 2009 The ECCG held a seminar where we discussed the margins of marketing. I’m going to try to capture some of the discussion here, but I’ve included recordings too. The academics in ECCG wanted to hold an event that was not like the usual academic conference. We didn’t want long, finished papers and we [...]
