The Culture Industry, Information and Capitalism, 2015

Drawing on Marxist theory and concepts, as well as on various theoretical contributions developed by prominent political economists, Bolaño develops a unique approach to understanding the culture industry, offering an interesting intervention in debates surrounding media and communication.

Introduction PART I: THE CONTRADICTIONS OF INFORMATION 1. Simple Circulation and Information 2. Information and Capitalist Production 3. Capital and State, Advertising and Propaganda 4. The Bourgeois Public Sphere as Embodiment of the Contradictions of Information in Competitive Capitalism PART II: MONOPOLY CAPITALISM AND THE CULTURE INDUSTRY 5. The New Configuration of Capital 6. Transformations in the State Sphere 7. Structural Change of the Public Sphere and the Advertising-Propaganda Contradiction 8. Capitalism and Lifestyle 9. Observations on the History of the Culture Industry PART III: THE CULTURE INDUSTRY AND ITS FUNCTIONS 10. The Culture Industry and Propaganda: Approaches based on the Concept of Ideological Apparatuses 11. The Form of the Mass Media Apparatus: Cesareo and the Italian School 12. Cultural Dependency Theories 13. The Culture Industry and Advertising 14. Advertising and Sales Promotion in Baran & Sweezy 15. Dallas Smythe´s Audience Production 16. Advertising and Consumer Goods 17. Advertising and Added Value PART IV: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND CULTURE 18. The French Tradition 19. The French School (Second Generation) PART V: FROM PRODUCTION TO COMPETITION: TOWARDS THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE COMMUNICATIONS AND CULTURE ECONOMY 20. Reflections on Television and Competition 21. An Alternative Theoretical Approach 22.An Alternative Theoretical Approach: the Dual Nature of Products in the Culture Industry 23. The Symbolic Space 24. Techno-Aesthetic Standards 25. Towards a Regulation-Based Analysis 26. An Analytical Model for the Audiovisual 27. The Dynamic of the Complete Model PART VI: SUBSUMPTION OF INTELLECTUAL WORK AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE INTERNET 28. Intellectual Work 29. The Political Economy of the Internet 30. Internet Convergence: an Analysis Model 31. Internet Economy: Two Important Contributions 32. The Social Logic of the Internet and the GNU / LINUX system 33. Free Software as an Alternative Model Conclusion and Prospects: Communication and Capitalism in the 21st Century Bibliography

César Bolaño has a PhD in economic science from the University of Campinas (Unicamp) and is Professor at Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS), Brazil. He is the author of Mercado Brasileiro de Televisão; A Televisãobrasileirana Era Digital; Political Economy, Communication and Knowledge: A Latin American Perspective and Qual a Lógica das Políticasemcomunicação No Brasil? His research is concerned with the Marxist perspective of communication and culture, as well as with the fields of political economy of culture and communication.