This video introduces students in my POT 4936 class (Democracy and Propaganda) to Jacques Ellul and his concept of the "technological society," and why he saw propaganda as a technique.
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3:57 : Basic biographical information on Ellul
5:20 : He was a Christian anarchist -what is that?
8:38 : The mass society --why Ellul calls the modern world the "technological society", what does "technique" mean? (goal-oriented know-how)
9:46 : His book, The Technological Society (1954), technique as a utilitarian approach to knowledge.
11:08 : Two things to remember about technique
12:58 : The difference between ancient and modern political philosophy
15:20 : Propaganda is one of the human techniques. What does that mean?
17:20 : Psychological techniques
18: 25 : Different kinds of propaganda (integration vs agitation, horizontal vs. vertical)