Table of Contents:
  • Corporate colonization of the life world
  • Communication and the politics of everyday life
  • The Role of communication studies
  • The Historical relation of communication and democracy
  • Language and the poltics of experience
  • Participation as a normative ideal for democracy and communication
  • Systematically distorted communication and discursive closure
  • The Rise of the modern corporate form
  • The "Subject" and discourse of managerialism
  • Disciplinary power and discursive formations at work
  • The Imaginary world of work : reproblematizing the obvious
  • Workplace democracy as a responsive micropractice.