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Send us Fan Mail In Part II of a two-part series on totalitarian propaganda, we explore who is susceptible to this type of propaganda and how it poses a threat to democracy.  We delve into a discussion of who is susceptible to totalitarian propaganda through the perspectives of prominent thinkers. Drawing from the works of Vaclav Havel, Hannah Arendt, Aldous Huxley, and Joost Meerloo, we explore t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Propaganda Universe, we delve into the world of totalitarian propaganda and its challenge to democratic systems.  Join us as we explore the function and role of propaganda in totalitarian movements. We examine the relationship between power, propaganda, and totalitarianism, the aims of totalitarian propaganda, and some of its techniques.  Drawing on the keen ins...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we discuss the relationship between the control of information and propaganda. Propaganda and the control of information are two sides of the same coin as where you find one, you'll find the other. To understand how this works, please join me in...The Propaganda Universe!!

Send us Fan Mail This is part two of a two-part series on propaganda as the critical paradigm for understanding propaganda. In this episode, we present a formal theory of propaganda. Please check out the video version of this podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FoUGDwomJow Also, please visit my web page at https://www.propagandauniverse.net/. If you find value in the mission of the universe, plea...

Send us Fan Mail This is part one of a two part series on propaganda as the critical paradigm for understanding propaganda and proposing a formal theory for propaganda. In this episode, we discuss the absence of a framework for understanding propaganda and why it is important to have one. Pt. II of this series will propose a formal theory.  If you find value in the mission of the universe, please...

Send us Fan Mail In previous episodes of Propaganda Universe, we've discussed the difficulty in defining propaganda and why it is a perplexing paradigm. Because of this "definitional fog", propaganda remains a vague concept that is used in whatever ways that suits the user of the term. This is a cause for confusion as to what propaganda is, which complicates its study and prevents u...

Send us Fan Mail When we think of power, it is usually in terms of some type of force or coercion being applied by one actor on another. However, power is better understood as a set of relations that exist between different actors where one actor has a greater capacity to influence another. The source of the relationship varies depending on the social context. In this episode, we explore how the c...

Send us Fan Mail A much maligned term, the notion of what we mean by propaganda has been obscured by its various interpretations to the extent that it has become a floating signifier to mean whatever a user wants it to be. Most often, it is used to cast an opponent's communication in a negative frame. In this episode, we explore the historical meaning of the term propaganda. Really.

Send us Fan Mail In this video, we discuss the historical difficulty in defining what propaganda is. This difficulty prevents us from understanding how it functions and how we should respond to it.  

Send us Fan Mail This is the introductory Podcast for Propaganda Universe. It explains the mission of the universe, who the host is, and discusses some basic themes of the channel.