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"most accounts of today's capitalism don't advance our thinking on how capitalism shapes culture. David Harvey's offhand reference in his primer on neoliberalism (2005) that he examined the cultural effects of neoliberalism in an earlier book (1989)–a book published sixteen years earlier, before most people even in the West had a personal computer or Internet access or a cellular telephone–serves as an example"(44).