Tag: marketing
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The Attention Merchants
Referenced by Michael when he was visiting us back in May and I picked it up. It happened to fit well with things I’ve already been thinking about such as The Algorithm and whether culture precedes from it or it precedes from culture. Basically, does the algorithm show us what we create or is it…
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The Century of the Self
Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud, worked with the corporations to create a “democracity”: a democracy where people were, and say themselves, as consumers and their every desires were catered to, while the elites of the corporations, and ultimately government, used this to control (tame) them through a perceived democracy. Freud’s insight Bernays used was…