Our series on the life, work, and legacy of Noam Chomsky continues with a critical look at Chomsky’s signature intellectual work, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Media. This episode traces Chomsky’s development through the 1970s and 1980s, as he evolved into a fierce critic of state violence and corporate propaganda, while becoming a bit of a radical celebrity himself. Justin has plenty of ideas about how Chomsky’s media theories hold up in the era of social media, 8chan, and QAnon. Are our minds really under the control of a unified state power? How does a fractured media, controlled in part by the people themselves, manufacture consent?

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