14-10-2009
Download Century of the Self:
- Happiness Machines
- The Engineering of Consent
- There is a Policeman Inside all our Heads He Must Be Destroyed
- Eight People Sipping Wine
Tags: Adam Curtis, Edward Bernays, Marketing, Public relations
awesome! thanx. hope you have more in store, and will share it soon. i have bookmarked the page and will check it up often.
Check out Bernays’s “Crystallizing Public Opinion,” (1923) http://www.scribd.com/doc/5369599/Crystallizing-Public-Opinion-Edward-Bernays and
“Propaganda” (1928)(2005 reprint) http://books.google.com/books?id=JlcPgPt17KcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=propaganda&ei=T0I8S6jGI5vwNK69gaUB&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Freud wasn’t his greatest inspiration. It was Walter Lippmann’s “Public Opinion” (1922) http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=S8TqN1PkglMC&oi=fnd&pg=PR11&dq=%22Lippmann%22+%22Public+opinion%22+&ots=b1iR6yNCeD&sig=hAd_kP8xGgCth4LIwr1B0NLKtns#v=snippet&q=special%20class&f=false
and
W Trotter “Instincts of the herd in peace and war” http://books.google.com/books?id=pUpWAAAAMAAJ&dq=instincts%20of%20the%20herd%20in%20peace%20and%20war&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q=&f=false