Purpose This paper reconsiders the role of critical theory within the field of consumer culture theory. Methodology …/approach The paper is documentary evidence of a roundtable held at the 10th annual Consumer Culture Theory conference on the … use of critical theory in the academy and in CCT more specifically. In the course of the roundtable, it was discovered …

particular ideology enabling and supporting U.S. capitalism. It is argued that rising levels of worker consumption have …

tackles the social, political, business, personal, and technological meaning of "surveillance capitalism" as an unprecedented …, how we feel, who we're with. The consequences of surveillance capitalism for us as individuals and as a society vividly … come to life in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism's pathbreaking analysis of power. The threat has shifted from a …