influences & further reading
the following are individuals, theories, schools of
thought and organizations that have influenced our
ideas regarding topics including, but not limited to
- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
- Internalized Racism, including its mechanisms
- Social Organization
- Media, Advertising, & Propaganda
- Advanced Capitalism & Mass Consumerism
- The Politics of Sex and Race
All but the tiniest minority of ideas throughout Mankind's history have been completely original, and like the rest of humanity we take inspiration from others to create new ideas.
Our hats go off to the following people and organizations for their ideas and bodies of work, which gave us the inspiration for this project.
Noam Chomsky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography_of_Noam_Chomsky#Politics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent:_The_Political_Economy_of_the_Mass_Media
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessary_Illusions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profit_over_People:_Neoliberalism_and_Global_Order
Adam Smith
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations
Guy Debord
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Debord
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle
Herbert Marcuse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-Dimensional_Man
Edward Bernays
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
Adam Curtis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
Stuart Hall, Professor Emeritus of Cultural Studies,
Open University (United Kingdom)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hall_(cultural_theorist)
Aleksandar Maćašev
http://www.goebbels.info/goebbels-about.htm
http://www.macasev.com/
Kumiko Nemoto, Assistant Professor of Sociology,
Western Kentucky University
http://www.wku.edu/Dept/Academic/AHSS/Sociology/nemoto.htm
Robin Dunbar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Dunbar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
Malcolm Gladwell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Gladwell
http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tipping_Point_(book)
Albert Memmi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Memmi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colonizer_and_the_Colonized
Martin Niemöller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Niem%C3%B6ller
die Weiße Rose (The White Rose Movement, Munich, Germany, 1942-1943)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Scholl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Scholl
Media Awareness Network
http://www.media-awareness.ca/
Asian-Nation.org
http://www.asian-nation.org/index.shtml
BlackPast.org
http://www.blackpast.org/
'Confirmation Bias' (Phenomenon)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
America's Reconstruction, University of Houston
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/index.html
Abraham Lincoln & The Gettysburg Address
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address