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I would say not, however to me it is a means of cheap advertising, though the cheapest form of advertising is always word of mouth. Personally, I must admit, I like Coopers Pale Ale, and as such I will wear a T-shirt with the brand on it though I should also point out that the T-shirt was given to me as a gift. I guess, if the brand was a brand that I didn't like, then I wouldn't be wearing it unless of course I was paid to do so, then I wouldn't have a problem, unless of course it was something that I was violently opposed to.

Some have suggested that the modern corporatocracy is launching a war against the middle class. To be honest I am going to dispute that namely because the corporatocracy needs the middle class, and even a cash flushed working class, to survive. Things have changed dramatically since this book was published, as the corporatocracy attempted to increase profits by increasing availability of credit. However, the more people got into debt, the less of an ability they have to pay it back, and when they cannot pay it back the debt must be written off.

Come , the entire economy reaches the brink of collapse, and the banks have not yet recovered. The economy survived, barely, and some still say it is on life support. However, many of the masters of the economy have fallen from grace, but this was not through the actions of demonstrators and protesters, but through their own greed. In the end it is much like a Shakespearian tragedy. As mentioned, the corporatocracy need the people to survive, to create and grow their profits, but they have effectively reached critical mass.

All of the jobs that filled the pockets of American workers have gone overseas, and as such these workers have been left without anything. Further, their savings accounts have also been drained and their credit has been maxed out, therefore they no longer have any money left to partake in the consumer society.

Sure, the staples such as Walmart and McDonalds can survive because everybody needs food, but the others can't. Instead, with no money left to suck out of the working class, they need to look elsewhere for support, and unfortunately that does not exist in the developing world.

The workers there are still underpaid and cannot afford the luxuries of the west. Therefore, in the end, the corporatocracy is its own worst enemy, and its endless pursuit of power and profits is going to be its own undoing. Though I still love the free market capitalist who hated short sellers.

I know this has nothing to do with this book, but I have to mention it. It is typical of the hippocracy of the extreme capitalist. They love the free market right up to the point that the market spins around and smacks them in the face, then they will jump in with regulations in an attempt to protect their profits. All I can say is if you want a free market, then you have to accept all of the free market, both good and bad.

Personally, I see nothing wrong with short sellers, and in fact I actually quite like them because they piss off the capitalist to no end. Apr 03, Pink rated it it was ok. I skimmed most of this. Not that anything was wrong with the book, it just felt like it was stating the obvious to me.

Maybe this would have seemed like newer information at the time of publishing. Right now, in , with my anti-capitalist mind, this didn't tell me anything I wanted to know. I guess my recent-college-student self wants more of an attempt to appear objective. It's to remind me every day what I have to do, which is, 'Just Do It'. I guess this shows one of the flaws that this kind of book might have when read years after it's writing point , written in 4 years.

This was the first time I heard about this author, before her other books. Still, most of the stuff in here is readable, though the last part, 'No Logo', was hard to get through, not because of what was being talked about, but perhaps because it wasn't quite so gripping as the other parts.

CEOs moving around, getting paid big. Food sources spoiling. This book gave me further reasons to dislike Ronald Reagan some of his law-changes have caused some of the issues above. With brands one shouldn't forget things like less-visible brands container makers, university brands. The brands were in general American, but some Canadian, British, and other non-American brands appeared also. The dated: view spoiler [In general, the Internet has become more important though how free it is now can be pondered.

And this rise of Internet meaning the emptying of a lot of malls. Spice Girls are sort of around though with less bang. There seems to be less city- or country-based music scenes being popular like grunge, Britpop… What's happened to: Netscape. Sears shrunk. Borders its WTC store is mentioned in the book.

Discovery stores. Body Shop takeover from L'Oreal in The Ogoni people still no justice. Portable CD players. There's no Facebook founded ; Livejournal is still quite new. No hipsters mentioned. No Netfrix, Viaplay, Hulu.

No sight of Napster, Pirate Bay. Adbusters still has some questionable issues, but is active. Bernie Sanders doing the anti-Nike thing. And Aung San Suu Kyi, whose still declared as activist-saint — she's not such a person these days.

Not so charitable here, Bill Gates! I wonder if activism etc. I may be wrong with some guesses. And then there's the current 'trade war' stuff with China, Mexico… The author certainly feel still optimistic here, with some of a revolution.

Chang — Factory Girls factory life in China ] This book is about brands, and the issues that rise over their spreading, ruling, and domination. Although this book is clearly US-centric and some of the problems are stronger there than elsewhere , it's still relevant. I made a list of brands mentioned. I have been checking my 'made in [country]' labels, and weighing my use of brand products, my choices of buying, and my label loyalities. How much your purchases 'uniform' you?

What sort of actions I might make because of what I know from here like use brands from my own country? Time to ask yourself and change if you want to change, keep what you keep.

This book may have its dated bits, but the important bits stay important. We were editors in Canada's student press at the same time -- Even then, Klein was in a league of her own. Well, Doug Saunders was up there, too. If I'm going to be honest with myself, I have not yet read this book for very selfish reasons: while Naomi's star continued to climb, I chose alcohol, drugs and self-absorption.

Klein's fame arose from a commitment to serious journalism and leftist politics. I was jealous. One night, while hanging out in some pub on Spadina, with members of the still white-hot Kids in the Hall quaffing pints at the bar, I realized that I didn't have a place to stay.

My writing had gotten some attention through the Canadian University Press wire -- a precursor to the internet my age! She jumped up, handed me a key and said, "That's the key to my apartment. You can stay there.

I was too drunk to fuck, too drunk to engage in all-night political discussion with Naomi Klein. No regrets, right? But what the fuck was I thinking? Naomi, please keep doing what you're doing.

And, for what it's worth: I'm enjoying your book so far lol. May 29, Rick rated it it was amazing Shelves: Reading this book more than ten years after it came out is hard.

It's difficult to realize how momentous it was at the time. It's hard to understand that this book is one of the cultural underpinnings of the anti-sweatshop movement, the WTO protests, Occupy Wall Street. The cynicism about brands that Klein documents is so pervasive now it's hard to remember how much people just loved brands blindly and completely at one point.

THis book completely changed things. Having read several Klein articl Reading this book more than ten years after it came out is hard. Having read several Klein articles in recent years - as well as the revised forward to the ten year edition - you can see that Klein has moved away from using the concept of brands as a fulcrum for her intellectual arguments against certain aspects of globalization, corporatism, etc.

But not completely - Brands are still the most visible component of a company, and, thus, serve as a mechanism to attack them. That is still useful. In some ways, though, the brand approach to anti-globalism seems a bit dated. Many of the sinister examples Klein listed didn't pan out, and some of the companies are hardly massive brand juggernauts these days, just a little over ten years later.

I almost laughed out loud about the panic Klein bestows on Celebration, Florida. I had just visited last summer and it was nothing like she described. This, of course, is because of the fall of one of the villains of the brand portion of the book - Michael Eisner. However, in reading many economists' work on brand and advertising, Klein has come up more than once, and indeed, her concept of Brand disconnects the concept of Brand from its original economic form.

This can have some profound ramifications, and many modern academic economists have explored it further. Concretely, a brand no longer symbolizes a specific origin or quality, in fact it could signal just the opposite.

It's a weird thought. Finally, having worked in advertising for 15 years, I can say that Klein definitely intentionally or not distorts the motivations of many of the creatives she lists.

I know because there are a few places in the book where she references campaigns I worked on, and we were thinking nothing of the sort of plots and schemes she attributed to us. Whether in the end that matters may be immaterial - the effect is the same - but the book does read substantially more like it's all a big single plot than, in my experience, any of it really is.

Perfectly written for a non-fiction book, this entire work will annoy you once you realise how much and how easily human beings are manipulated. Sadder than everything, you are faced with how much of your own behaviour and ability to choose is bent by the will of big corporations, and how this massively hurts other human beings. Read up on Export Processing Zones - get good and angry - and then watch as no one listens because our Western lives are so god damn convenient.

A good read for anyone i Perfectly written for a non-fiction book, this entire work will annoy you once you realise how much and how easily human beings are manipulated.

A good read for anyone interested in the machinations of modern life, and what hides behind the curtain. Jul 19, Todd Martin rated it it was amazing Shelves: culture-politics , finance. No Space: Public space is being branded at an ever increasing rate. From sports stadiums and athletes to concerts and educational institutions.

These brands have an extraordinary influence over public policy and our lives. The classic example is the publishing company, which owns the distributing company that gets the product to the stores, the communications outlets which prov No Space: Public space is being branded at an ever increasing rate.

The classic example is the publishing company, which owns the distributing company that gets the product to the stores, the communications outlets which provide the marketing and advertising and the retail outlets which sell to consumers. To a large extent, these monopolies get to pick and choose what you see, hear and read. The free exchange of ideas is limited and the scope of public conversation restricted. No Jobs: Companies are increasingly outsourcing all manufacturing operations to 3rd party vendors which primarily reside overseas in impoverished countries.

In free trade zones around the world individuals work in sweatshops for slave wages to produce overpriced branded products for the developed world. As more companies adopt this model of production, there is a race to the bottom as good manufacturing jobs in the US are exported. No Logo: Student groups, universities, unions, shareholders and municipal governments are fighting back by holding companies responsible for the work practices of their suppliers.

They are leveraging the power of the company brand as a means of shaming these institutions into behaving responsibly. Will it work? If anything, companies have only grown stronger and have increased their hold over federal lawmakers and their visibility in the public sphere.

Aug 18, stupidus rated it it was ok Recommends it for: Critical reader. Yea but no but It was a nice try, and while I could probably agree on many levels with the author, I still call Klein a hippie. I have always thought it to be wholly unreasonable to demand and to sincerely expect anyone and everyone to offer their own plan as to how things should be done as opposed to how we do things now.

This is preposterous. Anyone who can come up with valid arguments why things currently are amiss and why they should be remedied, must be allowed to voice their opinion despi Yea but no but Anyone who can come up with valid arguments why things currently are amiss and why they should be remedied, must be allowed to voice their opinion despite not necessarily being able to personally formulate then and there, or even at all an alternative, better, way of doing things.

It's cool if you can, but it shouldn't be a qualification for even being allowed to enter the debate. There isn't a single person on this planet who could come up with a perfect plan because there are no perfect plans! Almost no one will admit that capitalism is without glitches, but many will assert with gusto that capitalism just requires a little bit of tweaking and some tender loving care.

This is absolute nonsense. Of course we could always have better democracy. People could easily be given more and better options to vote for changes, for example. We could have "local governments" with localized budgets within different parts of cities to enable those people living there to make concrete decisions and plans that will affect their everyday lives directly.

We could do loads to improve democracy, trust me. We could also find ways to actually sustain businesses and private individuals to operate in a free market reality - not just in free market make-believe. This would most likely mean that players who began to dominate markets need to be split in one way or the other to enable other and especially up-and-coming individuals and companies to compete against them in much more fairer conditions.

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