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  <title><![CDATA[Propaganda]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jacques Ellul]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Intellectuals who think they are immune to Propaganda]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jan 21 14:34:44 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jan 21 14:45:52 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the third book concerning technology and society that really changed the way I think about the world.  As with The Technological Society and Mumford's Pentagon of Power, this book contains many ideas and concepts that turn our normal worldviews upside down.  He states that Propaganda is nece...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13085147">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Aug 31 12:52:32 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[As in The Technological Society, Ellul examines, not the practice of propaganda, but the the underlying assumptions and ideology that gives rise to it--a much broader category of communication than commonly assigned to the term. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu May 24 23:02:51 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu May 24 23:13:23 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm actually reading this right now, so I'll update this as I am amazed and transformed by this highly underappreciated and brilliant Frenchman. ]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[citizens of a democracy]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Scary, scary, scary.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Modern readers, especially perhaps readers in the Anglosphere, might face a few hurdles caused by <em>Propaganda</em>'s time and place of origin. (I know I did.) Ellul draws on French experiences of the Second World War, of the first decade of the Cold War and of the end of empire in Indochina and Algeria wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57551353">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is an amazing book on propaganda.  certainly you'll come away with a new view of what propaganda is and what needs to exist for it to manifest.  this is not the kind of book that you'll breeze through.  some parts you'll have to read several times.  it's probably best read twice.  my brother sa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55964045">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Should be mandatory reading in college, if not before. I was quite a bit older when I came upon it. But it's never too late. Provides a clear description of the mechanics of INFORMATION.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Total, unabated apocatastisis...]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[those interested in the development of the modern psyche]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[While it is clear that at times Ellul has no bloody clue what he's talking about in a factual sense, his ideas are intriguing.  The proposed chicken-and-egg quandary is especially engaging--as one begins to read more they are compelled to examine their current situation.  How much <em>does</em> propaganda ef...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14688827">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Oct 29 13:37:18 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>Just watch out for the &quot;sociological propaganda&quot;</strong><br/><br/>This was an unnecessarily long book with not much useful content in it. The most interesting and relevant concept mentioned in its pages was probably the &quot;sociological propaganda,&quot; in which the aim is to produce a progre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46938409">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="35116345">
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  <date_added>Sun Oct 12 11:18:25 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Propaganda as defined by Jacques is far more pervasive a current in the modern society of man than we would all like to think.  Most of us don't actually fully exercise our free will very freely. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A tough read, but good if you want to understand the true nature of propaganda.  An eye opener!]]></body>
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