Selisker, Scott,

Human programming brainwashing, automatons, and American unfreedom / [electronic resource] : Scott Selisker. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2016. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Enemies of freedom -- Uniquely American symptoms: Cold War brainwashing and American exceptionalism -- Anti-institutional automatons: new left reappropriations of automatism -- Human programming: computation, emotion, and the posthuman other -- Cult programming: extremism, narrative, and the social science of cults -- Fundamentalist automatons: representing terrorist consciousness in the war on terror -- Automatism and agency.

9781452951805 1452951802




Robots--United States.
Psychological warfare--United States.
Brainwashing--United States.


Electronic books.

BF633 / .S45 2016

153.8/530973