Society of the Spectacle
What might be novel is the ownership and control over the entire value chain through command of the information vector itself.
McKenzie Wark • Sensoria: Thinkers for the Twentieth-First Century
assuming domination over the lives and minds of its subjects.
Charles Reich • The Greening of America
The social group is broken down into atomized individuals who fight for their right to fulfillment via professional advancement or personal consumption. This system is often sold to us as freedom. Those competing individuals never find true autonomy, however, because they lack the social fabric in which to exercise it.