Articles We Love :: Modern art was CIA ‘Weapon’
Modern art as a weapon for the CIA? Seems more like a plot out-line to a new film then it does a piece of the great American Abstract Expressionism story. For whatever it’s worth, it’s an interesting spin on the role of art as not only a tool of inspiration but one of power and manipulation.
Docs We Love :: The Century of the Self
In our consumerist society, the SELF is exalted and it’s desires reign supreme. Sigmund Freud was the first to examine our subconscious through psychoanalysis and his American nephew, Edward Bernays, used his uncle’s techniques to manipulate the masses by establishing the field of “public relations” and advertising as we know it. These techniques were so effective that soon the US government, political parties and the CIA began implementing them. Why do we buy things we don’t need? Is satisfaction our ultimate pursuit or is it a way for the powerful to keep us in line and docile? Has consumerism become the opiate of the masses?
The Century of the Self explores all these questions through an in-depth look at the history of psychoanalysis in our modern culture. – Moni Pineda
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