{"id":26653,"date":"2025-07-29T17:45:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/followthethings.com\/?p=26653"},"modified":"2026-03-02T18:24:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:24:38","slug":"handbook-intentions-show-capitalist-evils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/followthethings.com\/?p=26653","title":{"rendered":"Handbook: intentions page"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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RELATED INGREDIENTS<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

INTENTIONS<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Pop the bubble<\/a>
Change consumer behaviour
Change corporate behaviour<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TACTICS<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Target the right brand
Show the violence
Embody exploitation
Include suffering kids
Juxtapose extremes
Bring managers into view<\/a>
Blame, shame & guilt
Hold \u2019em accountable
Suggest concrete action
Encourage a boycott<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RESPONSES<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Wow \ud83d\udca5 WTF?
Capitalism is sh*t
I\u2019m so angry
This is disgusting<\/a>
I gotta do something
I won’t buy it
Oh shut up
Attack your critics
Liar! Fraud!
LOL capitalism
Who to believe?
There is no alternative
It could be worse
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IMPACTS<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Now we\u2019re talking
Activism is publicised
I shop differently now
Workers suffer
Can’t tell<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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EXAMPLES<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

HANDBOOK PAGES<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Bananas!*
Employee visualisation appendage<\/a>
Ghosts
Girl model
Ilha das Flores<\/a>
Maquilapolis
Mangetout
Primark – on the rack
The true cost
UDITA<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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FOLLOWTHETHINGS.COM PAGES<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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POP THE BUBBLE<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Show capitalist evils<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

IN BRIEF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Corporations exploit workers & environments across the world & consumers benefit from cheap products for which others pay a high price. If more people could see this, they would act differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s this page?<\/summary>\n

This is a placeholder intention<\/em> page that, once finished, will explain this intention, illustrate it with reference to comments taken from relevant followthethings.com example pages, and will give a clickable sense of the tactics, responses and impacts that go with this intention. <\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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RECOMMENDED READINGS<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Noel Chellan (2023) The life of capitalism.<\/a> in his F\/Ailing capitalism and the challenge of COVID-19<\/em>. Leiden: Brill, 180-216<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lilie Chouliaraki (2010) Post-humanitarianism: humanitarian communication beyond a politics of pity. International journal of cultural studies<\/em> 3(2), 107\u2013126 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ian Cook et al<\/em> (2002) Commodities: the DNA of capitalism.<\/em> https:\/\/followtheblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/commodities_dna.pdf (last accessed 3 June 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ian Cook & Tara Woodyer (2012) Lives of things. in Eric Sheppard, Trevor Barnes & Jamie Peck (eds) The Wiley Blackwell companion to economic geography<\/em>. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 226-241<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Duncombe (2012) It stands on its head: commodity fetishism, consumer activism, and the strategic use of fantasy. Culture & Organization<\/em> 18(5), 359-375<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elaine Hartwick (2000) Towards a geographical politics of consumption Environment & planning A<\/em> 32(7), 1177-92<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniel Miller (2001) The poverty of morality.<\/a> Journal of consumer culture<\/em> 1(2), 225\u2013243<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image credit<\/summary>\n

Icon: voice command exploits (https:\/\/thenounproject.com\/icon\/voice-command-exploits-7025182\/<\/a>) by nangicon from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0)<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

BACK TO HANDBOOK CONTENTS PAGE \ud83d\udc49<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SECTION: <\/strong>Intentions<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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