On subliminal persuasion

| September 28, 2010

Review of Wilson Bryant Key, The Age of Manipulation, New York: Henry Holt, 1989. “Orwell’s 1984 actually occurred around 1934. We were just too busy to notice.” Marshall McLuhan There are many types of subliminal technology. The most common involves placing verbal messages in soundtracks at low volume (below the conscious threshold) and visual images […]