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Are there any other great and prescient books that explain or explore the contemporary mechanisms that control and guide society (and culture)?

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>>17921005
The Society of Spectacle, 1984, maybe pic related, havent actually read it yet but I'm just guessing (its on my reading list)

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>>17921005
Ellul’s other stuff
Neil Postman
Milgram is interesting too

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>>17921005
Also -
The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling - Arlie Russel Hochschild
The Sociological Imagination - C Wright Mills
Radial Technologies - Adam Greenfield

>> No.17921949

>>17921310
I just got through that and it’s pretty much a book of a lot of examples of how America only tells their citizens one side of the story. Almost everyone now knows how propaganda works and what it is, not very relevant unless you are American. At this point most people know that America is the bad guy in the international world and it doesn’t need to be reiterated ad nauseam, mostly talks about political interference and double standards they hold with allied countries and enemies.

>> No.17922550

>>17921310
I haven't read Media Control but Manufacturing Consent I have. Chomsky's view is too narrow and strictly US-centric. What he describes was banal and obvious even at the time of his writing and it's effect falls short, at least compared to Ellul, Baudrillard, Debord, etc