I’ve already mentioned imperialist and militarist propaganda: those are part of and intertwine with geopolitical propaganda more generally. In this modern world-system built on social hierarchies, state/colonial violence and the “uneven and combined” geography of capital, so-called geopolitics/international politics is merely the sphere of the cruel and Machiavellian competition and interactions between the representatives/agents of […]
Month: November 2023
Notes on Media Ecology, Disinformation & Propaganda, Pt. III: The Culture Industry & The Spectacle
As I mentioned in the previous section, I’m not familiar enough with the critical discussions/literature on the “culture industry”, the “spectacle” and modern culture/art (Friedriech Kracauer, György Lukács, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Bertol Brecht, Guy Debord and the Situationists, Roland Barthes, Oskar Negt/Alexander Kluge, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Fredric Jameson, etc.) to get into an […]
Notes on Media Ecology, Disinformation & Propaganda, Pt. III: Influencers, Religion/Cults, Quackery and Scams
Religious and cultic propaganda certainly cannot be overlooked, insofar as both religions and specific cults like Scientology or the Moonies, have developed and always rely on extensive systems of both internal and external propaganda. The internal front refers largely to relational and ideological indoctrination within the groups or institutions, while the external PR front slanders […]
Notes on Media Ecology, Disinformation & Propaganda, Pt. III: Copaganda
One of the most disgusting forms of propaganda is the ideological/cultural glorification and legitimization/rationalization of policing, often referred to as copaganda. This is something that E. P. Thompson already noted more than fourty years ago (and doubtless, many poor and oppressed people decades before that): Without using the term copaganda, historian E.P. Thompson in the […]