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No. 146 April 1985
LettersUpdate
 EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL
What are the costs of concentrating the power to decide in just a few hands? Richard
Swift traces the threads of control that govern life in our managed society.
The managed society - the facts
Window on the world
Ex-BBC producer Chris Johnson reveals a hidden agenda behind the Corporation’s
impartial respectability.
Next stop Nirvana
A tongue in cheek look at the personal salvation industry by Tom Hawthorn.
Managing out dreams
Commercial imagery is designed to speak to our innermost needs. Stuart Ewen explores the
politics of style and the style of politics.
Reading the ads
Commercials show is the world from their own point of view. Sometimes we need to
interpret. Twelve tips in advertisement literacy.
Democracy incorporated
Joyce Nelson investigates the new high-tech business of political campaigns
The mind managers
Huw Richards takes on human behaviourist B F Skinner in an expose of the psychology of
social control.
Speaking the unspoken
A decoding of management rhetoric
The foreign hand
Balijit fears for his life. Patriotic fervour rules the streets of Calcutta. A short story
on nationalism and politics in India by Tony Vaux.
Against all odds
Ulli Diemer looks at some of the ways people are reclaiming their own free spaces from the
managers of society
Ideas for action
Book reviewsCountry profile: VenezuelaCover illustration: Carlos Freire
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