The devil is in the retail: Why shopping is political

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

You are what you buy, but how does shopping shape our politics? Can brands be agents of social change? Bobby Friction is joined by Marcus Collins, author of For the Culture: The Power Behind the World's Most Successful Brands, from Apple to Beyoncé, to explore how companies tailor their brands to different personal politics. “How we make our identity is unbelievably powerful.” “Nike is far more than just a sneaker company, it is an agent of social change.” “It all goes wrong when brands don’t fully commit to particular politics.” www.patreon.com/bunkercast Book link: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/marcus-collins/for-the-culture/9781035020010 Presented by Bobby Friction. Producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Assistant producer: Adam Wright. Audio editor: Robin Leeburn. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved
0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
0:13.0	I loved going to college.
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1:00.0	Hello and welcome to the bunker.
1:06.2	You'll need to know on news and politics seven days a week.
1:09.7	I'm Bobby Friction.
1:11.6	Now we'd all like to believe we're fully autonomous
1:14.3	individuals with lives, but physical and intellectual that we've carved out for
1:19.0	ourselves, right? Society might coalesce around certain ideas, ideologies or even brands, but me, yes, free-thinking little
1:28.5	old me, I'm an individual and nothing can influence how I eat, work or pray. I am in control. But am I? And are we? Is there
1:39.2	another truth? Are we mere vessels where the culture we inhabit acts as its own power and force?
1:46.0	Is the information overload we exist in changing us in ways we don't even know?
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