THE VISUAL LIBRARY

Media, Mind & Machine (1928–2019): Bernays to Zuboff

The grid’s respectable bibliography: Bernays inventing public relations, Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model, Bagdikian counting the owners, Curtis filming the self being managed, Zuboff naming surveillance capitalism. The least mystical shelf in the Library — and the hardest to dismiss.

7 sources · all six collections

Propaganda

Edward L. Bernays · 1928

The engineering of consent, described openly by the man who practiced it — the documented craft of steering publics from above, written by public relations’ founding theorist.

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Manufacturing Consent

Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky · 1988

The scholarly propaganda model: how ownership, advertising, and elite sourcing filter what populations are permitted to hear — destabilization’s media chapter, argued from evidence rather than suspicion.

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The Media Monopoly

Ben H. Bagdikian · 1983

The media-consolidation arithmetic: fifty corporations in 1983, five by 2004 — the documented version of the poster’s “six corporations.”

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The New Media Monopoly

Ben H. Bagdikian · 2004

The media-consolidation arithmetic: fifty corporations in 1983, five by 2004 — the documented version of the poster’s “six corporations.”

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The Century of the Self

Adam Curtis · BBC documentary series · 2002

Two landmark documentary series on how psychology and manufactured fear became instruments of governance — the destabilization thesis rendered in archive footage.

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The Power of Nightmares

Adam Curtis · BBC documentary series · 2004

Two landmark documentary series on how psychology and manufactured fear became instruments of governance — the destabilization thesis rendered in archive footage.

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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Shoshana Zuboff · 2019

The Harvard scholar’s definitive account of surveillance as an economic order — the rigorous, mainstream version of the grid the posters draw in gold.

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