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53. I have made these extensions in Robert E. Babe, “The Political Economy of
Knowledge: Neglecting Political Economy in the Age of Fast Capitalism (As Be-
fore),” Fast Capitalism 2, no. 1 (2006), www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/2_1/
index.html (accessed Dec. 15, 2007).
54. Maxwell McCombs and Donald Shaw, “The Agenda-setting Function of Mass
Media,” Public Opinion Quarterly 36 (1971): 176-87. Here the thesis is that media,
at most, affect the priority with which the public views issues, as opposed to, say, in-
doctrinating the public into accepting certain perspectives.
55. See chapter 2 on Innis’ assessment of the First Amendment.
56. Ziauddin Sardar and Borin Van Loon, Introducing Cultural Studies (St.
Leonards: Allen and Unwin, 1998), 58; Graeme Turner, British Cultural Studies: An
Introduction (Cambridge, MA: Unwin Hyman, 1990), 41–84.
57. Sardar and Van Loon. Introducing Cultural Studies, 58.
58. Richard E. Lee, Life and Times of Cultural Studies: The Politics and Transfor-
mation of the Structures of Knowledge (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003),
153.
59. Terry Eagleton, Figures of Dissent (London: Verso, 2003), 152.
60. Lee, Life and Times of Cultural Studies, 154.
61. Lee, Life and Times of Cultural Studies, 156.
62. Eagleton, Figures of Dissent, 156.
63. Mark Poster, “Introduction,” in Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings, ed. Mark
Poster (2nd ed., Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001), 1.
64. Mark Poster, Cultural Theory and Poststructuralism: In Search of a Context
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989), 6.
65. Jean Baudrillard, “The System of Objects” (1968; reprint, Jean Baudrillard: Se-
lected Writings, ed. Mark Poster, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001), 24.
66. Jean Baudrillard, “The System of Objects,” 24.
67. Kevin Bales, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
(Berkley, CA: University of California Press, 1999).
68. Jean Baudrillard, “For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign” (1972;
reprint, Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings, ed. Mark Poster, Stanford, CA: Stanford
University Press, 2001), 60.
69. Baudrillard, “For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign,” 63.
70. Jean Baudrillard, Simulations, trans. Paul Foss, Paul Patton, and Philip Beitch-
man (New York: Semiotext[e], 1983), 25. Earlier Baudrillard defined the hyperreal as
“the generation by models of a real without origin or reality” (p. 2).
71. Baudrillard, Simulations, 23.
72. Baudrillard, Simulations, 45, 46.
73. Baudrillard, Simulations, 31; emphasis added.
74. Frank Webster, Theories of the Information Society (London: Routledge,
1995), 167–68.