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Von ‹harter› zu ‹sanfter› Gehirnwäsche. Rebecca Lemov erforscht die Realitäten und Imaginationen von Mind Control

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In this interview with the Harvard Professor Rebecca Lemov, issue editors Bernd Bösel and James Kennaway asked her about some major questions related to the topic of mind control raised by her book «The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion» (2025). Lemov explains why she takes the notion of ‹brainwashing› more seriously than some previous historians. After discussing the role of trauma in the context of the Korean War debate on the subject, she argues for an enlarged sense of the power of «hyper-persuasion» in our twenty-first-century world of tech platforms and crypto currency manipulation. This way, she shows the uncanny continuities in the discourse of mind control.

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Lemov, Rebecca; Kennaway, James; Bösel, Bernd: Von ‹harter› zu ‹sanfter› Gehirnwäsche. Rebecca Lemov erforscht die Realitäten und Imaginationen von Mind Control. In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, Jg. 17 (2025), Nr. 1, S. 90-101.https://doi.org/10.14361/zfmw-2025-170109
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