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How Propaganda Became Public Relations: Foucault and the Corporate Government of the Public

How Propaganda Became Public Relations: Foucault and the Corporate Government of the Public

Wimberly, Cory

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Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

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ISBN10: 1032086114
ISBN13: 9781032086118
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 30 2021
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

How Propaganda Became Public Relations pulls back the curtain on propaganda: how it was born, how it works, and how it has masked the bulk of its operations by rebranding itself as public relations. Cory Wimberly uses archival materials and wide variety of sources -- Foucault's work on governmentality, political economy, liberalism, mass psychology, and history -- to mount a genealogical challenge to two commonplaces about propaganda. First, modern propaganda did not originate in the state and was never primarily located in the state; instead, it began and flourished as a for-profit service for businesses. Further, propaganda is not focused on public beliefs and does not operate mainly through lies and deceit; propaganda is an apparatus of government that aims to create the publics that will freely undertake the conduct its clients' desire.

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