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
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.
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.
The media-consolidation arithmetic: fifty corporations in 1983, five by 2004 — the documented version of the poster’s “six corporations.”
The media-consolidation arithmetic: fifty corporations in 1983, five by 2004 — the documented version of the poster’s “six corporations.”
Two landmark documentary series on how psychology and manufactured fear became instruments of governance — the destabilization thesis rendered in archive footage.
Two landmark documentary series on how psychology and manufactured fear became instruments of governance — the destabilization thesis rendered in archive footage.
The Harvard scholar’s definitive account of surveillance as an economic order — the rigorous, mainstream version of the grid the posters draw in gold.