CONTROL TEXT – CITED SOURCES

By: Warren Peterson

This framework synthesizes concepts from systems theory, psychology, cybernetics, media studies, behavioral economics, philosophy, and symbolic analysis.

• Marshall McLuhan — Understanding Media

• Michel Foucault — surveillance/power structures

• Carl Jung — symbolic systems/archetypes

• Jean Baudrillard — hyperreality/media simulation

• Noam Chomsky & Edward Bernays — media influence/propaganda

• Daniel Kahneman — cognitive bias/behavior

• Friedrich Nietzsche — existential philosophy

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• Systems Theory / Cybernetics

• Behavioral Psychology

• Information Theory

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Works Referenced

• Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation.

• Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish.

• Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow.

• McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media.

• Debord, Guy. Society of the Spectacle.

• Jung, Carl. Man and His Symbols.

• Bernays, Edward. Propaganda.

• Skinner, B.F. Science and Human Behavior.

Book Collection

• Understanding Media — Marshall McLuhan (1964)

• The Medium Is the Massage — Marshall McLuhan & Quentin Fiore (1967)

• Amusing Ourselves to Death — Neil Postman (1985)

• Simulacra and Simulation — Jean Baudrillard (1981)

• The Society of the Spectacle — Guy Debord (1967)

• Propaganda — Edward Bernays (1928)

• Manufacturing Consent — Noam Chomsky & Edward S. Herman (1988)

• 1984 — George Orwell (1949)

• Politics and the English Language — George Orwell (1946)

• Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes — Jacques Ellul (1962)

• General System Theory — Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1968)

• Brain of the Firm — Stafford Beer (1972)

• Thinking in Systems — Donella Meadows (2008)

• Man and His Symbols — Carl Gustav Jung (1964)

• The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious — Carl Gustav Jung (1959)

• Psychology and Alchemy — Carl Gustav Jung (1944)

• Modern Man in Search of a Soul — Carl Gustav Jung (1933)

• Science and Human Behavior — B.F. Skinner (1953)

• Conditioned Reflexes — Ivan Pavlov (1927)

• Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman (2011)

• The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life — Erving Goffman (1956)

• Beyond Good and Evil — Friedrich Nietzsche (1886)

• Thus Spoke Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche (1883)

• On the Genealogy of Morals — Friedrich Nietzsche (1887)

• The Myth of Sisyphus — Albert Camus (1942)

• The Stranger — Albert Camus (1942)

• Fear and Trembling — Søren Kierkegaard (1843)

• Being and Time — Martin Heidegger (1927)

• Transcendental Magic — Eliphas Levi (1854)

• The History of Magic — Eliphas Levi (1860)

• The Secret Teachings of All Ages — Manly P. Hall (1928)

• Liber Null & Psychonaut — Peter J. Carroll (1987)

• Condensed Chaos — Phil Hine (1995)

• Magick in Theory and Practice — Aleister Crowley (1929)

• The Archaic Revival — Terence McKenna (1991)

• Food of the Gods — Terence McKenna (1992)

• True Hallucinations — Terence McKenna (1987)

• DMT: The Spirit Molecule — Rick Strassman (2001)

• The Doors of Perception — Aldous Huxley (1954)

• The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are — Alan Watts (1966)

• The Universal One — Walter Russell (1926)

• The Secret of Light — Walter Russell (1947)

• Lost Star of Myth and Time — Walter Cruttenden (2007)

• Discipline and Punish — Michel Foucault (1975)

• The History of Sexuality — Michel Foucault (1976)

• Economy and Society — Max Weber (1922)

• Distinction — Pierre Bourdieu (1979)

• Tragedy and Hope — Carroll Quigley (1966)

• Everything You Know Is Wrong — Russ Kick (1998)

• 50 Things You’re Not Supposed to Know — Russ Kick (2004)

• Cosmic Trigger — Robert Anton Wilson (1977)

• Prometheus Rising — Robert Anton Wilson (1983)

• Quantum Psychology — Robert Anton Wilson (1990)

• Capitalist Realism — Mark Fisher (2009)

• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism — Shoshana Zuboff (2019)

• Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now — Jaron Lanier (2018)

• Steps to an Ecology of Mind — Gregory Bateson (1972)

• Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth — Buckminster Fuller (1969)

• Science and Sanity — Alfred Korzybski (1933)

• Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself — Dr. Joe Dispenza (2012)

• Becoming Supernatural — Dr. Joe Dispenza (2017)

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas — Hunter S. Thompson (1971)

• Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 — Hunter S. Thompson (1973)

• A Confession — Leo Tolstoy (1882)

• The Kingdom of God Is Within You — Leo Tolstoy (1894)

• The Art of War — Sun Tzu (~5th century BCE)