Author’s preface, Translator’s preface, 1 THE GEOSTRATEGY OF THE NETWORKS: The rise of the global agencies,2 CULTURE SHOCK: The decline of the imperial model, 3 THE LIMITS OF THE GLOBAL SCENARIO: Imagining the Other, 4 MEDIA WORLDS: Cosmopolitan flexibility, 5 THE VANGUARD OF DEREGULATION: Neo-liberal enterprise culture, 6 THE NEW FRONTIER OF THE OLD CONTINENT: Fragmentation and planetary conscience, 7 CHANGING ROLES: The new marriage of advertising and fiction, 8 AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT: Towards a bar-coded world?, 9 THINK TANKS: The bestiary of ‘lifestyle culture’, 10 THE SPIRIT OF ENTERPRISE: The limits of transparency, 11 TOTAL COMMUNICATION: The crisis of public culture, 12 THE WEAPONS OF CRITICISM AND THE CRITICISM OF WEAPONS: A new subjectivity?, Notes, Index